1st DCA to Decide if City Rebutted Cancer Presumption for Officer

The California 1st District Court of Appeal will decide whether a municipal employer had successfully rebutted the presumption of industrial causation for a novice police officer's colon cancer in light of evidence that the disease takes decades to develop.A workers' compensation administrative law judge found that Daniel H. Bigelow's workplace exposure to known carcinogens was not reasonably linked to his cancer, since the panel qualified medical evaluator said the latency period for colon cancer is longer than the four years that Bigelow had been on the City of Paso Robles police...