Court Opinion

ID: 9689106
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:19:56.156249+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:44.720616
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T. G. Kavanage
(dissenting)'. ’Whether or not Chester O. Tidey was totally and permanently disabled from silicosis during his lifetime was inapposite to the decision in this matter by the hearing referee and the appeal board. Nor should we consider it in this appeal.
The decision from which this appeal was taken dealt not with the decedent’s application for total and permanent disability benefits due to silicosis which was pending at the time of his death, but solely with his wife’s application for death benefits for the injury causing death, silicosis.
The statute provides for a death benefit for an injury which causes death. While it is true that if payments are made on account of the loss of *52wage-earning capacity occasioned by the injury which results in death, the death benefit is reduced by the amount of such payments, in the case before us there admittedly was no payment made on account of silicosis which was determined to be the injury resulting in death.
There being no statutory provision for offsetting payments made on account of another injury, I would affirm the decision of the appeal board.