Borchardt v. Biddick

TODD, Justice.

Relators, Peterson Biddick and its compensation insurer, seek review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals holding that employee’s heirs are entitled by Minn.Stat. § 176.021, subd. 3 (1978), to receive payment for permanent partial disability sustained by employees in a work-related heart attack on October 14, 1976, but not paid to him prior to his death on November 11,1978, from a nonwork-related cause. We agree with the Court of Appeals that, contrary to relators’ position, the statute was properly applied.

The pertinent provision in section 176.021, subd.…