Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit August 6, 1976, No. 75-1896 (Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Lines, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs)

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act was amended in 1972 to provide a death benefit to the survivors of an employee who has sustained “permanent total disability due to [an] injury [and] thereafter dies from causes other than the injury.” 33 U.S.C. §§ 901, 909.