Torres Rivera v. Industrial Commission

Mr. Justice Pérez Pimentel

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner worked as sanitary inspector in the Department of Health. On April 13, 1959, while inspecting a business, he suffered an epileptic seizure which caused him to fall to the floor sustaining a fracture of the parietal bone and other injuries to his body.1 The Manager of the State Insurance Fund held that it was not a labor accident; that the fall was not due to any risk inherent therein and that it was caused by an organic condition which could arise under any circumstance in the course or out of employment and without it…