DEPENDENTS OF FRED CRAWFORD v. FINANCIAL PLAZA

No. 7349.

643 P.2d 48 (1982)

DEPENDENTS OF FRED CRAWFORD, DECEASED, Claimant-Appellant, v. FINANCIAL PLAZA CONTRACTORS and John Mullen and Company, Employer, Insurance Carrier-Appellee, and Special Compensation Fund, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yvonne R. Shinmura, Honolulu (Steven Guttman and Elton John Bain, Honolulu, with her on the briefs) (Guttman & Bain, Honolulu, of counsel), for claimant-appellant.

Grant Kidani, Honolulu, for employer, insurance carrier-appellee.

Kumu B. Vasconcellos and Noralynne K. Pinao, Deputy Attys. Gen. (Molly Jo Campbell, Deputy Atty. Gen., on the brief), for Special Compensation Fund, appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ., and OGATA and MENOR, Retired Justices, assigned by reason of vacancies.


RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

The question on appeal is whether HRS § 386-33 (1976) ("section 33"),1 a part of our workers' compensation statute, provides for the apportionment between an employer and the state special compensation fund of responsibility for payment of death benefits to a deceased employee's dependents where the employee's death results from a combination of work-related injury...

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