Hoult v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner

This is an appeal by the claimant, Betty L. Hoult, widow of Cecil Hoult, from the April 15, 1988 Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board’s affirmance of the Commissioner’s order of August 18, 1987, which denied the claimant dependent’s benefits for an occupational disease fatality. Since the claimant established an unrebutted, prima facie claim for dependent’s benefits due to an occupational disease fatality when she offered evidence that her husband was ex posed to carbon tetrachloride 1 and benzene 2 vapors while working for the employer from 1935 until 1942 and died in 1985 of cardiorespiratory…