Arp v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

RICHARDSON, J.

We review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (board) which denied to Chris P. Arp, a widower (hereinafter petitioner), the benefit of the conclusive presumption of total dependency afforded to widows by Labor Code section 3501, subdivision (a). (All statutory references are to that code unless otherwise indicated.)

Section 3501 provides in pertinent part: “The following shall be conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee: [|] (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she was living at the time of his injury, or for whose…