Legal Opinion
Claim of Riehl v. Town of Amherst
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 31, 1954PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtVan Voorhis, J.
Death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law have been awarded to the widow of Charles.Biehl, who died from cancer May 1,1951. No claim was made that his cancer was caused or aggravated by his employment, but the theory on which the award is based is that heart disease (chronic myocarditis) was a contributing cause of his death. For about ten years he had been receiving workmen’s compensation from the Town of Amherst or its insurance carrier, appellants herein, upon a finding of fact that this heart trouble resulted from falling from a ladder while engaged in trimming a tree as an…
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