Bill Would Add Solid Waste Workers to Cancer Presumption

Hawaii lawmakers have introduced bills to expand the types of workers covered by presumptions of compensability and to expand the list of conditions that are presumed to have arisen out of employment. House Bill 1673, by Rep. Scot Z. Matayoshi, D-Kaneohe, would add solid waste workers to the firefighter cancer presumption. The bill would presume that leukemia, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, cancers of the lung, brain, stomach, esophagus, intestines, rectum, kidney, bladder, prostate or testes arose out of employment for solid waste workers with five or more years of service and...