Barbara Skowronek v. United Benefit Life Insurance Company

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, JR., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Plaintiff-appellant is the widow of Raymond Skowronek who suffered a heart attack on June 21, 1979 in the course of his work as a density control inspector at a Department of Highways construction site.

The facts indicate that he suffered the heart attack within five minutes of completing a soil density test which required substantial exertion. They also included the fact that he had not performed this particular work for nine…