Claim of Eddings v. Big Jim Service Center, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed April 28, 1976, which denied her application to reopen her claim. While working as a service station attendent on August 4, 1973, the deceased employee herein, who was the son of the claimant, was shot to death in an apparent robbery on his employer’s premises. Subsequently, accident, notice and causal relation were established, but, in a decision filed January 22, 1976, the board denied the claimant an award of death benefits upon finding that she was not a legal dependent of the deceased at the time of his death. Shortly…