Wilson v. State Accident Insurance Fund

In this workmen’s compensation case, insurer appeals the court’s order holding that claimant, a tax consultant, had suffered a compensable injury. On the dispositive issue the court adopted the finding of the referee, which had been rejected by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. That issue is whether claimant’s illness, an abdominal disorder, was caused by his employment.

Three doctors examined or treated claimant for the abdominal illness. One, Dr. Parcher, who examined claimant on behalf of insurer, responded when asked whether claimant’s injury was work related:

"No — he has [a] history of…