Theis v. City of Miami

BOOTH, Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal of the deputy commissioner’s order denying claimant death and disability benefits under Section 440.16, Florida Statutes (1987), on grounds that claimant was not the natural, legitimate daughter of the decedent. After careful review of the record and applicable law, we affirm the result below.

George Theis, a City of Miami mechanic, was killed on August 28, 1986. Edwidge St. Lot, Theis’s ex-wife and claimant’s mother, filed for benefits on claimant’s behalf. George had been divorced from Ed-widge for more than a decade when he died, but had been…