Subsequent Injury Fund v. King

Opinion by

Judge PIERCE. *

In this consolidated appeal of two separate workers’ compensation proceedings, the Sub sequent Injury Fund (SIF) seeks review of the final orders issued by the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) which held it liable in each case for a portion of the death benefits awarded to Minnie Tsosie and Marian L. King (claimants). We affirm.

Claimants are the widows of uranium miners who contracted lung cancer as the result of them occupational exposure to radon. In each case, diagnosis of the lung cancer occurred in 1993 and the miners died in the fall of 1994.

In each case,…