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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down a decision last week upholding the cancer presumption act for firefighters by reversing a lower court ruling that would have gutted it. The decision required the court to reject the city’s position that would have made it harder for firefighters to establish the presumption and easier for cities to rebut it.

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The wrongful death suit involving a pregnant Philadelphia woman who died in October 2012 after the rear doors on a Philadelphia Fire Department ambulance would not unlock is now in federal court. Joanne Rodriguez died on October 1, 2012 and ...

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