Legal Opinion · Dissent

Yost v. Wyoming State Treasurer Ex Rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided December 2, 1982No. 5721Published

1DissentRooney, Justice

I dissent. I believe the majority opinion is reading into § 27-12-603(b), W.S.1977, something exactly contrary to that which it says. Such section provides:

“(b) Benefits for employment-related coronary conditions except those directly and solely caused by an injury or disease are not payable unless the employee establishes by competent medical authority that there is a direct causal connection between the condition under which the work was performed and the cardiac condition, and then only if the causative exertion occurs during the actual period of employment stress clearly unusual to, or…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Brittain v. BoothWyoming Supreme Court · 1979
  2. Distad v. CubinWyoming Supreme Court · 1981
  3. Wind River Indian Education Ass'n v. WardSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  4. Geraud v. SchraderWyoming Supreme Court · 1975
  5. Thornton v. Alaska Workmen's Compensation BoardAlaska Supreme Court · 1966

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