Doyle v. Industrial Commission

Vivid coronary pain struck the claimant on August 13, 1976, while he was at lunch with a business associate. He went to a hospital and was admitted, only to suffer a heart attack resulting in permanent disability two days later. He brought a claim for workers’ compensation with which the arbitrator agreed but which the Industrial Commission did not allow. The circuit court of Du Page County confirmed the Commission. The record shows that the claimant suffered from progressive heart disease and that his heart attack was the natural result of that disease; the Commission’s decision that there…