MacArthur v. Nashua Corp.

The sole issue presented for our consideration is whether RSA 281:2, IX includes within its definition of compensable “dependents” of deceased employees a dependent who is neither the natural nor the adopted child of the deceased, but with respect to whom the deceased stood in a relationship in loco parentis. The Trial Court (Flynn, J.), approving the recommendation of the Master (Charles T. Gallagher, Esq.), held that it did not. We reverse and remand.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. The master found that Roger M. MacArthur died in a Delta Airlines crash on July 31, 1973, while on…