Carrie v. Continental Insurance

Birdsong, Judge.

Workers’ compensation. This appeal involves a claim by a widow for compensation following a fatal "heart *403attack” sustained by her husband. There is evidence to show that the decedent suffered from extremely occluded arterial héart vessels in which three of the major heart arteries were either occluded or obstructed and that the majority of the heart muscle tissue was already dead. The prognosis for survival was very poor. Expert testimony was offered that the death was the product of the disease and was not caused by the decedent’s work.

There was conflicting evidence that the…