Ward v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The decedent workman died of a blood infection (septicemia) on May 30, 1970, four months after laminectomy surgery arising out of a compensable back injury of January 9, 1970. The beneficiaries, including the widow, are the claimants. After hearing, the hearing officer, and thereafter the Workmen’s Compensation Board and the circuit court, rejected the claim holding *51that there was no showing that deceased died as a result of the January 9, 1970 accidental injury or while permanently and totally disabled. Claimants appeal.

The decedent was a 49-year-old…