Cabe v. Union Carbide Corp.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. The Plaintiff, suffering an adverse judgment in the Chancery Court, has presented the following issue for review by this Court: whether there can be a recovery of benefits under the Tennessee Worker’s Compensation Act for death due to a heart attack immediately precipitated by acute or sudden emotional stress as opposed to physical exertion, where the necessary causal connection is properly established by the proof.

Plaintiff is the widow of the decedent. She seeks the benefits payable to a dependent widow under the worker’s…