United States Fourth Circuit

In a challenge to an administrative order conferring benefits on a surviving spouse under the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, order is upheld where under Section 422(l) of the BLBA, a surviving spouse is automatically entitled to benefits without having to establish that the miner's death was due to pneumoconiosis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2011
• Published 12/07/2011

Judges

• WILKINSON

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathy Lynn Snyder, Ryan Christopher Gilligan