Claim of La Pierre v. Club 42

Appeal from a majority decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in a heart case. The board found there was a relationship between the compensable heart attack in 1955 and the fatal heart attack in 1958. The dissent of one of the board members was predicated on the ground that the question of causal relationship should be submitted to an impartial specialist for an opinion. Following the original attack in 1955 the decedent returned to work in 1956, still partially disabled and doing lighter work at shorter hours. He was under the continuous care of a physician, as evidenced by the…