*1 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FIRE : No. 405 EAL 2016 DEPARTMENT :
: : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from v. : the Order of the Commonwealth Court : : WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL :
BOARD (SLADEK) :
: : PETITION OF: SCOTT SLADEK :
ORDER PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 1 st day of March, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED . The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court, in a case of first impression, committed
an error of law by misinterpreting Section 108(r) to require a firefighter diagnosed with cancer caused by an IARC Group I carcinogen to establish exposure to a specific carcinogen that causes his/her cancer in order to gain the rebuttable presumption provided by the law?
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court committed an error of law by concluding
that a legislatively-created presumption of compensability may be competently rebutted by a general causation opinion, based entirely upon epidemiology, without any opinion specific to the firefighter/claimant making the claim?