AC43941 - Orzech v. Giacco Oil Co (Survivorship benefits under General Statutes § 31-3061; “In
awarding survivorship benefits to the plaintiff, the commissioner found that
the decedent had died by suicide as a result of depression that he had
developed stemming from compensable work injuries. On appeal, the defendants
claim that the board improperly affirmed the commissioner’s award of
survivorship benefits to the plaintiff because the commissioner erred in
finding a causal link between the decedent’s compensable injuries and his death
when (1) subordinate facts found by the commissioner were speculative or
inconsistent with the evidence and (2) the record established that the decedent
engaged in conduct prior to his death that constituted a superseding cause
breaking the chain of causation between his compensable injuries and his death.
We disagree and, accordingly, affirm the decision of the board.”)