Court Opinion

ID: 4149556
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-03-01 21:14:22.900723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:46:29.416565
License: Public Domain

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?