Dobash v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

Gloria Dobash (Claimant)1 petitions for review of the April 28, 2003, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), which affirmed the decision of a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) to deny Claimant’s fatal claim petition. We affirm.

Bernard Dobash (Decedent) was employed by Pennsylvania Gas & Water Company, now PG Energy, from 1990 until his death on January 18, 1996, when Decedent suffered a fatal heart attack while compjeting his shift at work. (WCJ’s Findings of Fact, Nos. 1, 4.) On January 15, 1998, Claimant filed a fatal claim petition against PG…