The Delaware Superior Court upheld a denial of benefits to a cancer-stricken police officer’s widow even though he had been granted a disability retirement pension for his disease.
Case: Mullins v. City of Wilmington, No. N23A-01-004-CLS, 08/18/2023, published.
Facts and procedural history: Barry Mullins worked for the City of Wilmington as a police officer. He was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in 2010. The tumor spread from Mullins’ eye to his liver, and he died in 2011.
The city paid a disability pension to Mullins, and after his death, his widow filed a claim for workers&rsq...
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