Alice Orsini, on Behalf of Megan R. Orsini v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, Senior District Judge:

Appellant, Alice Orsini, 1 gave birth to Megan Orsini on September 24, 1984. Megan’s father, Michael T. Orsini, died fully insured under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 301, et seq. on January 2, 1984. In July, 1985, Alice Orsini initiated, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a paternity test which established with 99.8% certainty that Michael T. Orsini was Megan’s biological father. Alice Orsi-ni never married or lived with Michael Orsi-ni. They maintained separate apartments and were each employed and self-supporting. Alice…