Supreme Court Won't Disturb 2nd DCA Ruling

The California Supreme Court will not be disturbing the 2nd District Court of Appeal's finding that a 2009 amendment to the Labor Code expanding the scope of the presumption of industrial causation for firefighters can apply retroactively to a firefighter who died of stomach cancer a year before the statute became effective. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined review of the 2nd DCA decision in Lozano v. WCAB (SCIF). William Lozano had worked for Pyramid Services, which provided firefighters at a Department of Defense installation used as an aircraft manufacturing plant for...