Legal Opinion
Claim of Plew-Jourdanais v. Adirondack Heating & Frost Insulators, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 27, 2011PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcCarthy, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 24, 2009, which ruled that decedent’s disabled son is a lawful dependent of decedent and is entitled to death benefits pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 16 (2-a).
James Jourdanais Sr. (hereinafter decedent) died while at work in 2007. Claimant, decedent’s wife, thereafter applied for workers’ compensation death benefits. Decedent’s sister and her husband are the legal guardians of decedent’s disabled son, respondent James Jourdanais Jr. (born in 1983), and they were awarded custody of him when he was six years old. A…
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