Roach Manufacturing Co. v. Cole

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1976 the General Assembly amended the workers’ compensation law to provide that death benefits are payable to persons who were “actually” dependent upon the deceased employee. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1315 (c) (Repl. 1976). In the present case the Commission, construing the amendatory language, held that the appellee, as the widow of her deceased husband, Glenn Cole, was not entitled to death benefits for herself, because she was not actually dependent upon him at the time of his death, but she was entitled to recover benefits for the couple’s l()-year-old daughter,…