HB2 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tommy Hanes

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Workers' compensation, firefighters, rebuttable presumption established, occupational disease, Secs. 25-5-110, 25-5-120 am'd.

Description

Under existing workers' compensation law, an occupational disease is not presumed to be the cause of a disablement or death and the person claiming compensation or other benefits has the burden of establishing that he or she is entitled to those benefits.

This bill would revise the definition of occupational disease as it pertains to workers' compensation law to include cancer of a firefighter.

This bill would establish a rebuttable presumption relating to the workers' compensation benefits of a firefighter who is not a smoker or user of any tobacco products and who is diagnosed with cancer under certain conditions.

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Subjects

Firefighters