Miller & Long Co. of Virginia, Inc. v. Frye

Michael J. Frye, 22 years of age, was killed on March 2, 1973, at a construction site in Fairfax County, Virginia, in an industrial accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

His employer and the insurer appeal from an award of the Industrial Commission of Virginia, one Commissioner dissenting, which provided for the payment of workmen’s compensation benefits to the claimants, the parents and five minor sisters of the deceased employee, upon a finding that they were partially dependent upon the employee. The full Commission had reviewed a deputy commissioner’s order which…