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CITY OF LAS VEGAS v. LAWSON

No. 53900.

245 P.3d 1175 (2010)

CITY OF LAS VEGAS, Appellant, v. Robin LAWSON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 30, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynne & Associates and Jill M. Lynne , Las Vegas, for Appellant.

King, Gross & Sutcliffe, Ltd., and Marvin S. Gross , Las Vegas; Hilbrecht & Associates and Norman Ty Hilbrecht , Las Vegas, for Respondent.

BEFORE HARDESTY, DOUGLAS and PICKERING, JJ.

OPINION

By the Court, HARDESTY, J.:

While working as a firefighter with appellant City of Las Vegas, respondent Robin Lawson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 and again in 2005. In this appeal, we first consider whether Lawson's 2005 notice of her claim for workers' compensation was timely. Because we conclude that Lawson did not learn from her physician until 2005 that her breast cancer was related to her work as a firefighter, we conclude...

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