Youngren v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation case and the issue is the compensability of a claim resulting from a fatal heart attack which occurred while the decedent was working on the job. The hearing officer found that medical causation had not been established. The Workmen’s Compensation Board and the circuit court agreed with the hearing officer. The claimant appeals from the circuit court’s ruling.

Knute Youngren, 62-year-old refrigeration foreman, died on the job November 25, 1968, a victim of atherosclerotic and thrombotic occlusion of a coronary artery of the heart. About two years previously he…