What the panel ordered
The Appeals Board affirmed the Findings and Order of March 23, 2020, denying defendant's petition for reconsideration.
Defendant filed a petition for reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Order of March 23, 2020, which was granted by the Appeals Board to study the factual and legal issues.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
AOE/COEApplicant prevailedbladder
The Appeals Board found that the applicant's bladder cancer began developing during his active employment period, entitling him to the presumption of industrial causation under Labor Code section 3212.1, despite the cancer manifesting after the statutory extension period.
From the decision · page 1In the Findings and Order of March 23, 2020, the workers' compensation judge (WCJ) found that applicant, while employed as a police officer by the City of Torrance during the period May 20, 1982 through March 6, 2003, sustained industrial injury in the form of bladder cancer. The WCJ also found that the injury is presumptively industrial pursuant to Labor Code section 3212.1, that defendant failed to rebut the presumption of industrial causation under section 3212.1, and that the date of injury for purposes of Labor Code section 5412 is September 25, 2018.