Hudson v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner & Union Carbide Corp.

In this appeal the claimant, Eufa M. Hudson, widow of Clinton D. Hudson, seeks reversal of an order entered by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board on March 29, 1978. The Appeal Board’s order set aside an award of widow’s benefits to Mrs. Hudson on the ground that she had failed to establish a causal connection between her husband’s death and his exposure to noxious fumes while in the employ of Union Carbide Corporation.

Mrs. Hudson filed her claim for widow’s benefits under the provisions of Chapter 23, Article 4, Section 10 of the West Virginia Code of 1931, as amended. That code section,…