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Case Name | LaTourtette vs. WCAB, Long Beach Comm Coll Dist | |
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Date | 03/12/1998 | |
Note | Injury or death from a non-occupational disease not compensable unless intervening occupational event. | |
Citation | 17 Cal.4th 644 | |
WCC Citation | WCC 29811998 CA |
SHEILA LaTOURETTE, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and LONG BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT, Respondents. Beginning in December 1979, decedent Elston LaTourette was employed as a supervising groundskeeper for the Long Beach Community College District, which is permissibly self-insured for workers' compensation liability. "Certainly it is possible that he would have died when he did, as he did, even absent his . . . employment. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the petition for reconsideration, adopting the recommendation and report of the workers' compensation judge. [1] The applicant for workers' compensation benefits has the burden of establishing the "reasonable probability of industrial causation. "
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