Aguiar v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZONA

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

The Industrial Commission denied a widow’s claim for benefits on the basis of a cardiologist’s opinion that the deceased employee’s myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest were unrelated to his work. We conclude upon appeal that the cardiologist’s testimony was invalid because it was grounded in the premise that ordinary labor cannot cause heart attacks, a premise that our legislature has rejected in A.R.S. § 23-1043.01(A).

FACTS

Pablo Aguiar, a 58-year old farm worker, died on September 26, 1986, after a sudden onset of chest pain while harvest ing lettuce for Power…