Dixon v. Louisiana Restaurant Ass'n ex rel. Self Insurors Service Bureau, Inc.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
1Opinion of the Court
YELVERTON, Judge.
This appeal arises from a worker’s compensation claim filed by the deceased worker’s widow, personally and as the adminis-tratrix of the estate of her granddaughter. The trial judge found that the worker’s heart attack arose out of his employment and that the employer did not meet its *136burden of proof establishing an intervening cause resulting in the worker’s death following the heart attack. The defendant appeals the two causation issues, i.e., the job-heart attack, and heart attack-death relationships. We affirm.
Daniel J. Dixon, the deceased worker, was employed by Chandler…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Virgil v. American Guar. & Liability Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1987
- Reid v. Gamb, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1987
- Carruthers v. PPG Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1989
- Fields v. Sperry Rand Corp.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1977
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