Claim of Dickinson v. Cape Vincent Volunteer Fire Department

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 22, 2011, which, among other things, ruled that claimant was entitled to dependency benefits pursuant to Volunteer Firefighters’ Benefit Law § 7 (46).

Claimant, decedent’s mother, applied for death benefits after decedent was shot and killed by a patient in the course of his work as a volunteer firefighter/emergeney medical technician. As is relevant here, claimant sought support payments for herself and decedent’s younger brother, alleging that they were “dependent upon the deceased at the time of’ his death (Volunteer…