California Court of Appeal
SMITH v. WORKERS- COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, A095914
In determining when parents should be considered "partial dependents" of their adult children living at home for purposes of recovering death benefits, the deceased must have provided a net financial benefit to the household, deducting first those costs attributable solely to the deceased.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/28/2002
- Published 02/28/2002
Judges
- STEVENS, J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- John M. Rea, Chief Counsel, Vanessa L. Holton, Assistant Chief Counsel and Claire Ervin Lee, Office of the Director-Legal Unit, Department of Industrial Relations, for Petitioner.
- For Appellees:
- No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board., Martin S. Weinstein, Law Offices of Martin S. Weinstein, Cupertino, and Regina McClellan, Santana & McClellan, for Respondent J.R.W. Contemporary, Inc.