Elinsky v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Senior Judge Kalish,

This is a petition to review an order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) denying fatal claim benefits to Elsie Brophy Elinsky, widow of Albert J.' Brophy, decedent. We reverse.

On October 12, 1977, Albert J. Brophy died in a fatal car accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. His widow, Elsie Brophy Elinsky, filed a fatal claim petition contending that the decedent sustained a work-related injury which resulted in his death.

At the time of his death, decedent had been employed by Gulf Research & Development Company (Gulf) for about twenty-one, years. He…