General Accident Fire & Life Insurance v. Sturgis

Marshall, Judge.

While at work around 6:00 a.m. on April 11,1971, the decedent employee became ill, complaining to a co-worker that his stomach was hurting. Within the next hour his illness worsened and around 7:30 a.m. he became comatose. He was taken to a hospital where he remained unconscious until his death a few days later. The record shows that on the morning in question he had been working in close proximity to toxic chemicals, though the degree of his exposure to same is not shown. The pathologist who performed the autopsy stated in his deposition that "the man was suffering from an…