The trustees of the NYPD's pension fund had ruled that links to three officers' cancers and their exposure to toxins at Ground Zero were not conclusive enough medically to allow for the statutory presumption that first-responders' serious medical conditions were caused by 9/11, but several Court of Appeals judges wondered whether that defeated the whole purpose of having a presumption in the law in the first place.
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Judges Question Basis for Denial of Benefits to 9/11 Responders
New York Law Journal
November 14, 2012
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