Bostick Tank Truck Service v. Nix

OP ALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this case is whether the trial tribunal’s death benefit award is supported by competent evidence showing a causal nexus between the prior on-the-job heart attack and the later episode of death-dealing fibrillation. We answer in the affirmative.

Claimant, the widow of a deceased worker, sought death benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. 1 Her husband died in 1983 after a cardiac pacemaker implant. She attributes her husband’s death to a heart attack which he sustained eleven years earlier. 2 While employed by Bostick Tank Truck Service…