Fertig v. STATE COMPENSATION DEPARTMENT

The question in this appeal is whether a widow can secure permanent partial disability workmen’s compensation benefits because of an industrial injury to her husband who later died from nonindustrial causes before the board or department made an order determining the extent of his permanent partial disability.

The workman was injured in June 1965 and for three months was paid temporary total disability benefits. The workman’s physician examined him in October 1966 and testified that the workman had an unscheduled permanent partial disability equivalent to 50 per cent loss of an arm. No award…