Opinion ID: 2366359
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Proper standard to determine whether Lawson's breast cancer is a compensable occupational disease under NRS 617.453

Text: NRS 617.453(1) declares that cancer is an occupational disease and compensable as such if a firefighter shows that: (1) [She] was exposed, while in the course of the employment, to a known carcinogen as defined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer [IARC] or the National Toxicology Program [NTP]; and (2) The carcinogen is reasonably associated with the disabling cancer. [1] NRS 617.453(1)(b). If the claimant establishes both requirements, then the [disabling cancer is presumed to have developed or manifested itself out of and in the course of the employment. NRS 617.453(5).