The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of death benefits to the widow of a cancer-stricken firefighter.
Case: City of Philadelphia v. Thompson (WCAB), No. 923 C.D. 2021, 03/19/2025, unpublished.
Facts: Larry Thompson worked for the City of Philadelphia as a firefighter before contracting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He died in May 2013 at the age of 61.
Procedural history: Thompson’s widow filed a fatal claim petition in 2016, alleging that her husband's lymphoma was caused by his employment.
A workers’ compensation judge granted the petition.
The Wor...
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