Crouse v. Commonwealth

*30OPINION

NIX, Chief Judge.

Appellants are appealing from orders of the Commonwealth Court which affirmed the Department of General Services’ (“Department”) and the Bureau of Risk and Insurance Management’s (“Bureau”) denial of death benefits provided by Section 1 of the Act of June 24, 1976, P.L. 424, No. 101, as amended, 53 P.S. § 891 (Act 101).

In Crouse v. Commonwealth, Dep’t of General Services, 116 Pa.Commw. 43, 540 A.2d 1015 (1988), the decedent, a volunteer fireman, suffered a myocardial infarction in 1970 and was diagnosed with coronary artery heart disease. In 1976 the decedent had a…