Claim of Baldassari v. Greenwich Mills Co.

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 6, 1977. The board, in reversing the referee, found that the claimant’s decedent’s death was not causally related to the work effort in which he was employed. The instant *840case hinges on conflicting medical testimony. The treating physician testified that in his opinion decedent’s unusual work effort caused the death by a myocardial infarction. Doctor Cutler testified that from his review of the records, the decedent died from intestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, acute pancreatitis and liver disease. He…