The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that there was no unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority in using a third party's definition of carcinogens to determine a firefighter's entitlement to benefits for kidney cancer.
Case: City of Philadelphia v. Healey, No. 1158 C.D. 2021, 06/21/2023, published.
Facts and procedural history: Joseph Healey began working as a firefighter for the City of Philadelphia in 2003. In 2016, He was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
Healey filed a workers’ compensation claim, asserting his cancer was an occupational disease.
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