Claim of Connolly v. Hubert's Service, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 13, 2011, which ruled that the death of claimant’s husband was not causally related to his employ*1116ment and denied claimant’s claim for workers’ compensation death benefits.

Claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent) worked as an automobile mechanic for the employer from 1976 to 1997. In that capacity, decedent regularly installed brakes and clutches— work that, according to a coworker, resulted in decedent’s exposure to an undetermined amount of asbestos dust. Decedent was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2000 and, following…