Claim of Smith v. Oneida Ltd.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 6, 2012, which ruled, among other things, that decedent’s death was causally related to his occupational illness.

In 1991, a compensable injury was established to the lungs of claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent), after which he was found to be permanently partially disabled in 1992. Decedent was paid workers’ compensation benefits continuously until his death in September 2010, after which claimant submitted a claim for workers’ compensation death benefits. A Workers’ Compensation Law Judge found, among other…