Weinmann v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff appeals by leave granted from an April 23, 1985, opinion and order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, one member concurring in result, affirming a decision by the hearing referee denying plaintiff workers’ compensation benefits. The central issue involved is whether the heavy physical exertion required by plaintiff’s job sufficiently contributed to plaintiff’s disease or arteriosclerosis so as to be compensable.

Plaintiff began work with the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation in Lansing on November 1, 1954. After working as an inspector and welder, jobs which…