House Unanimously Approves Expanded Cancer Presumption Bill

With a new Democratic majority this session, Virginia's House of Delegates wasted little time in approving a more generous cancer presumption bill, one that adds three more cancers to be covered by workers' compensation insurance and cuts the required service time before firefighters can become eligible. House Bill 783 passed by a vote of 99-0 on Tuesday. It now goes to the Senate, which is also controlled by Democrats. If approved there, the governor, also a Democrat in a state that had been in the red column for years, is expected to sign it into law. It's just one of dozens of...