Southwire Co. v. Cato

I respectfully dissent. The majority reverses the decisions of both the administrative law judge and the reviewing board, principally because the administrative law judge’s order contained a passing reference to the “natural inference” that Cato’s death due to a heart attack was work-related. This result is wrong for at least three reasons.

First and foremost, the majority wrongly erects an inflexible rule of law which bars use of the “natural inference” in heart attack cases where the manifestations of the illness occur when the worker is away *899from his job. I think that the very nature of…