Pfeiffer v. State, Department of Natural Resources

MILLS, Judge.

Pfeiffer appeals the deputy commissioner’s order denying his claim for temporary total disability and wage loss benefits. We affirm.

Employed since 1966 as a Marine Patrol Officer with the Department of Natural Resources, Pfeiffer was diagnosed as having artherosclerosis in 1973. In 1976 he suffered a myocardial infarction, and on 14 March 1980, the date of this alleged accident, he experienced a sharp angina while launching his Marine Patrol boat. The launching of this boat was a routine and customary part of his duties, and there was nothing unusual or different about this…