J & L Steel Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

DOYLE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation c/o LTV Steel Corporation (Employer) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to grant fatal claim benefits to Penelope Jones (Claimant) due to the death of her husband, James Jones (Decedent).

Claimant filed a fatal claim petition alleging that her husband died on September 15, 1986, due to long and continuous exposure to deleterious dusts, fumes, gases, and particulate matter including asbestos which caused cardiac arrest — respiratory failure which in turn caused his…