Estate of Frederick v. General Dynamics Corp.

Opinion

MCDONALD, J.

The principal certified issue in this appeal provides as follows: “Is the surviving dependent spouse of an employee who died as a result of an occupational disease entitled to benefits under General Statutes § 31-306 when: (a) the decedent did not work for *86the twenty-six weeks preceding the date of the manifestation of the occupational disease; and (b) the occupational disease manifested itself prior to October 1,1990, the effective date of Public Acts 1990, No. 90-116?”1 Estate of Frederick v. General Dynamics Corp., 240 Conn. 917, 692 A.2d 812 (1997).

Robert Frederick, the…