Claim of Ladley v. Akzo Salt, Inc.

—Mercure, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 16, 1998, which, inter alia, ruled that the payment of death benefits to claimant’s children beyond the age of 18 is the responsibility of the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier.

Claimant died as the result of a 1990 industrial accident. Workers’ compensation death benefits of $340 per week were awarded and apportioned among claimant’s widow and his two dependent children. The case was closed and a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) decision filed February 8, 1992 established…