Rock Road Construction Co. v. Industrial Commission

This appeal raises the recurring problem of the compensability of a fatal heart attack under the Illinois Workmen’s Compensation Act. The arbitrator, Industrial Commission and circuit court of Cook County all agreed that the heart attack here involved was causally connected with the decedent’s work and awarded compensation.

Between 1 :oo and 1:3o P.M. on October 9, 1962, the decedent, Frank T. Sorrentino, an asphalt truck driver for the Rock Road Construction Company, was found dead in the truck which he was driving after it apparently went out of control, lightly struck a guard rail and came…