Southwire Co. v. Cato

Hill, Chief Justice.

Certiorari was granted in this workers’ compensation case to decide two questions: (a) whether the “natural inference from human experience” can be relied upon where there is medical testimony that the employee’s heart attack was not caused by exertion on the job; and (b) whether the “natural inference from human experience” is applicable to a heart attack occurring at a time when the employee is not engaged in the employer’s business.

The facts of the case as found by the administrative law judge are as follows: “Claimant, an over the road truck driver for South-wire,…