Travelers Insurance v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

COBEY, Acting P. J. *

At issue herein is the amount of death benefits for which the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier is liable where the deceased worker leaves surviving him only partial dependents. Under compulsion of Department of Industrial Relations v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd. (Tessler) (1979) 94 Cal.App.3d 72 [156 Cal.Rptr. 183], (disapproved in Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd. (1982) 31 Cal.3d 715, 727 [182 Cal.Rptr. 778, 644 P.2d 1257]), the respondent Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) has held that the respondent Department of…