Karpovich v. Mathews

MEMORANDUM

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

This case arises under Part B, Title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as amended. 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq. The act establishes a program for the payment of benefits to living miners who are totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis arising out of coal mine employment and to the dependents of miners who died due to pneumoconiosis, or who were totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis at the time of their death.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Joseph Karpovich, died on February 1,1939, at 38 years of age, after working in the coal mines from about age…