Matakonis v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish,

The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirmed the referee’s dismissal of a widow’s fatal claim petition for compensation on the ground that her husband’s death, while employed as a dispatcher for Interstate Motor Freight, was a natural progression of chronic, degenerative heart disease, complicated by an acute myocardial infarction, and quite unrelated to work activities or conditions.1 We affirm.

Where the question in a workmen’s compensation case is whether death was a product of a work-related *569injury, a pre-existing pathology, or both,…