Claim of Pukaluk v. Insurance Co. of North America

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from an award of disability compensation. This is a ease of fright causing a heart attack, or at least the board could so find. The employer owned an office building and claimant was employed therein as an office cleaning woman. Some one or two months prior to the date of the alleged accident a man prowler had been seen about the employer’s premises. As a result the claimant and other cleaning women in the building were ordered to keep the doors in the office locked when they were working therein. In compliance with this directive the…