Anderson v. State Accident Insurance Fund

Claimant’s husband died as the result of a heart attack. The hearing officer found the attack and the death to have been work related and compensable under Workmen’s Compensation Law. The Workmen’s Compensation Board reversed the hearing officer and the circuit court agreed with the Board. Claimant widow appeals to this court.

Decedent was a 56-year-old log truck driver. He had sustained a compensable heart attack previously, in June of 1961. That claim was closed in 1964. Thereafter he ran a service station for about a year, drove a fuel truck for approximately a year and then beginning in…