National Union Fire Insurance v. Britton
National Union Fire Insurance v. Britton
Opinion of the Court
Appellant asked the District Court to review and set aside a compensation order awarding death benefits to the widow and minor children of an employee who sustained a fatal injury. The Commissioner had found, inter alia, that after an argument arising in the course of decedent’s employment in the employer’s place of business between the employer’s customer and the employee, a “gunshot wound suffered by the employee was willfully inflicted upon him by the employer’s customer because of his employment.”
We are. satisfied that the findings do not lack support by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole.
Affirmed.
. Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 902 provides that the term “injury” as used in the Act “includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment.”
Reference
- Full Case Name
- NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, a corporation v. Theodore BRITTON, Deputy Commissioner, District of Columbia Compensation District, Bureau of Employees Compensation, U. S. Department of Labor
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- Published