The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of benefits to a volunteer firefighter who developed large B-cell/non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Case: Bristol Borough v. WCAB (Burnett), No. 464 C.D. 2018, 03/22/2019, published.
Facts and procedural history: William Burnett worked for Bristol Borough as a volunteer firefighter. After he was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell/non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Burnett filed a workers' compensation claim.
Burnett asserted that his cancer had been caused by exposure to known carcinogens in the course of his firefighting activities.
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