McDANIEL v. N. D. WORKERS COMPENDATION BUREAU

Civil No. 960383.

567 N.W.2d 833 (1997)

1997 ND 154

Gary McDANIEL, Claimant and Appellant, v. NORTH DAKOTA WORKERS COMPENSATION BUREAU, Appellee, and City of Minot, Respondent and Appellee.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

August 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamont and Skowronek, Shari M. Gianarelli (argued), Minot, for claimant and appellant. John C. Skowronek (on brief).

Brent J. Edison, Special Assistant Attorney General (argued), Bismarck, for appellee North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau. Tracy Lynn Vignes Kolb, Special Assistant Attorney General (on brief).

Robert J. Slorby (appeared), Eaton, Van de Streek & Ward, Minot, for appellee City of Minot. On brief.


MESCHKE, Justice.

[¶ 1] Gary McDaniel appealed a judgment affirming the Workers Compensation Bureau's denial of benefits for his bladder cancer that he claims was presumptively caused by his work as a firefighter. We reverse and remand for further fact-finding on why substantial medical evidence favorable to McDaniel was ignored, and to apply the correct law of causation.

[¶ 2] McDaniel, a fireman for the City of Minot for over twenty-seven years...

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