New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division June 11, 1985 (Stone v. New Jersey Highway Authority)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BRODY, J.A.D.

This appeal requires us to resolve a dispute over the distribution of dependency benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. At the time of the work-related accidental death, the worker’s widow, Carol Stone, and Dawn, her minor daughter from a former marriage, constituted the decedent’s household.