“Doubts, including the factual, are to be resolved in favor of the employee or his dependent family”
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- “Doubts, including the factual, are to be resolved in favor of the employee or his dependent family”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
EDGERTON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
Though the record does not support, the Deputy Commissioner’s finding that the accident did not cause death, I think it does not require a finding that the-accident did cause death. If an accident, causes both deterioration which shortens life and inactivity which lengthens-life, I think the accident does not cause-death unless the deterioration shortens-life more than the inactivity lengthens-it. I would remand the case to the Deputy Commissioner for new findings»