JENKINS v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Docket No. 36367.

48 Cal.App.3d 570 (1975)

121 Cal. Rptr. 812

ELDA E. JENKINS, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

May 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Maurice S. Marcus and Richard A. Hellesto for Petitioner.

T. Groezinger, James J. Vonk, George S. Bjornsen and Robert A. La Porta for Respondents.


OPINION

TAYLOR, P.J.

In this proceeding, petitioner, widow of a fireman who succumbed to a myocardial infarction sustained fighting a fire, seeks review and annulment of an order by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board which granted the carrier's petition for reconsideration, rescinded the referee's order commuting an award of death benefits and substituted its own order of commutation. The matter arose as follows:

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