Lakics v. Lane Bryant Department Store

Lane Bryant Department Store and its compensation insurer seek review of a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Court of Appeals awarding employee, who had died several months earlier, temporary total disability benefits. Relators also seek review of a subsequent order directing payment of the award in equal shares to employee’s surviving brothers and sisters. Re-lators first contend that the award cannot stand because the essential finding of causal relation between an injury to the bony structure of employee’s nose, sustained in the course of her employment in December 1972, and cancer…