{"id":488,"date":"2013-05-19T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:34:28","slug":"favorable-firefighter-decision-from-nevada-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2013\/05\/articles\/police-and-firefighters\/favorable-firefighter-decision-from-nevada-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorable Firefighter Decision from Nevada Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fire-fighter-clip-art.jpg\" alt=\"fire-fighter-clip-art\" width=\"96\" height=\"95\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fire-fighter-clip-art.jpg 226w, https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fire-fighter-clip-art-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us\/public\/caseView.do?csIID=27242\">City of Las Vegas v. Evans<\/a>, 129 Nev. Adv. Op. 31 (05\/03\/2013)<\/em>, the Nevada Supreme Court held that a firefighter who was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor had a compensable claim based upon an appeals officers&#8217; ruling that expert physicians established a direct causal connection between the cancer and the firefighter&#8217;s exposure to carcinogens while fighting fires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The firefighter had been employed only four years as a firefighter when he was diagnosed with the brain cancer.&nbsp; He therefore could not use the statutory&nbsp;qualified,&nbsp;rebuttable&nbsp;presumption in NRS 617.453 &nbsp;that his cancer arose out of the course and scope of his employment.&nbsp; That presumption applies&nbsp;only if the firefighter has five years of continuous, uninterrupted employment as a firefighter.&nbsp; However, the firefighter could still file a compensable claim under the general occupational disease statute, NRS 617.440, by providing expert testimony that his&nbsp;cancer resulted from cancer-causing carcinogens that are released in large amounts during fires, and that he fought over 100 fires during his four years as a firefighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In City of Las Vegas v. Evans, 129 Nev. Adv. Op. 31 (05\/03\/2013), the Nevada Supreme Court held that a firefighter who was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor had a compensable claim based upon an appeals officers&#8217; ruling that expert physicians established a direct causal connection between the cancer and the firefighter&#8217;s exposure to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2013\/05\/articles\/police-and-firefighters\/favorable-firefighter-decision-from-nevada-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorable Firefighter Decision from Nevada Court<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[153,155,167,170,201,234,353,385],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-and-firefighters","tag-cancer","tag-carcinogen","tag-claim","tag-compensable","tag-disease","tag-firefighter","tag-occupational","tag-police-and-firefighters"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}