The Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico ruled that the aggregate 700-week limit on benefits requires reducing the death benefit awarded to the widow of a firefighter who died from a form of cancer.
Frank Clark Di Luzio had worked as a firefighter in Santa Fe for more than 20 years when he retired in August 2001. In January 2012, he was diagnosed with mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He became physically unable to work and was disabled from working until he died June 2, 2021, at 66.
Di Luzio filed a workers' compensation claim in June 2012 and was awarded permanent total di...
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