State Supreme Court Weighs In On Firefighter Cancer Case

(Providence, RI)--The Rhode Island Supreme Court is issuing an opinion on the topic of firefighters who are afflicted with cancer.The court says state law is not conclusive about whether all cancer cases are job-related.The court says this is something the General Assembly could have mandated, but that there is no clear language in state law indicating it has done so.The case goes back to a decision several years ago by the state's Retirement Board to deny a disability pension to a Cranston firefighter, saying he did not prove that his cancer was connected to being a firefighter.


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