Claim of Schechter v. State Insurance Fund

The employer appeals from an award of death benefits to the widow and the claimant appeals from a denial of benefits to decedent’s stepson.

The decedent, following a heart attack, received workmen’s compensation benefits. (See 6 N Y 2d 506.)

He died in 1963 and the doctor who attended him from the date of the accident until his death testified that as a result of the original heart attack, he suffered damage to the myocardium and that while he also suffered from a gradual progressive heart condition ‘ ‘ the previous infarct had a good deal to do with bringing this on much sooner than otherwise…