Case Name: CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FIRE DEPARTMENT v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (SLADEK). Petition of: Scott Sladek
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2017-03-01
Citations: 167 A.3d 707
Docket Number: No. 405 EAL 2016
Parties: CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FIRE DEPARTMENT v. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (SLADEK) Petition of: Scott Sladek
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 167
Pages: 707–707

Head Matter:
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FIRE DEPARTMENT v. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (SLADEK) Petition of: Scott Sladek
No. 405 EAL 2016
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
March 1, 2017

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 1st day of March, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court, in a case of first impression, committed an error of law by misinterpreting Section 108(r) to require a Are-fighter diagnosed with cancer caused by an IARC Group I carcinogen to establish exposure to a specific carcinogen that causes his/her cancer in order to gain the rebuttable presumption provided by the law?
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court committed an error of law by concluding that a legislatively-created presumption of compensability may be competently rebutted by a general causation opinion, based entirely upon epidemiology, without any opinion specific to the firefighter/claimant making the claim?