Morrow v. United States

Plaintiffs ("claimants”) seek review by this court of the administrative denial of survivors’ death benefits under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Act of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94-430, 90 Stat. 1346 (1976), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3796-3796c (Supp. III 1979) ("PSOBA”). The case now comes before the court on the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment. Claimants’ decedent, a fireman, was afflicted by smoke inhalation while fighting a house fire. He collapsed from a heart attack the same day and died from a second heart attack six weeks later. The fireman’s heart had apparently already begun to…