After years of failed attempts by the General Assembly to strengthen Missouri's cancer presumption law, firefighters may have found a new avenue to obtain workers' compensation benefits — at least for one type of cancer associated with the hazards of fighting fires.
The Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri this week avoided the firefighter presumption section of the workers' compensation statute altogether. Instead, it upheld an Industrial Relations Commission ruling that a firefighter was due benefits because his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was consider...
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