Lawmaker Eyeing Change to Firefighter Presumption Law

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefPennsylvania firefighters and the state's municipal employers are renewing debate about a law that created a presumption that cancers suffered by firefighters are job-related in the wake of a major migration of volunteer fire units to the state's carrier of last resort and release of a state report that 102 cancer claims have been filed since the law took effect in 2011.But groups on both sides of the debate about Act 46, signed into law by Gov. Tom Corbett on July 7, 2012, said Thursday they need more data to determine how many claims pending b...