Bartlett Tree Experts Co. v. Johnson

The defendant, Diane Johnson (claimant), appeals from an order of the Superior Court (Contas, J., approving the report of a Master, R. Peter Shapiro, Esq.) denying workers’ compensation benefits for her husband’s fatal heart attack. RSA 281:2, V (Supp. 1986). We reverse and remand.

Jeremiah Johnson, age forty-seven, went to work for Bartlett Tree Experts Company (Bartlett) as a temporary groundman on July 23, 1984. He had worked for Bartlett in that capacity previously, but in the year prior to his death, Johnson had been employed at a desk job for eight months and, for several days, as a…