In re Rios

This is an appeal from an order of a three-commissioner panel which affirmed a single commissioner’s order which had awarded appellant $500 for allowable expense for burial of the victim, which appellant, Nona J. Fishbaugh, had paid. Shane R. Head and Ann Marie Head, on whose behalf appellant had sought an award, were found not to have sustained either “dependent’s economic loss” or “dependent’s replacement services loss,” which finding is the gravamen of the appeal.

The single commissioner’s order found that Nicole M. Rios had suffered both dependent’s economic loss and dependent’s…