Claim of Schuren v. Wolfson

Claimant’s husband had been suffering from cardiac disease and under medical care for five years before his sudden death June 20,1966 while in the course of his employment as a chauffeur. In 1961 he suffered from a heart block and in 1963 from an acute myocardial infarction. In April, 1966, within two months of his death, he was treated for cardiac failure and from May 1 to May 12 — a little over a month before his death—he was hospitalized for congestive heart failure.

A cardiac specialist called by claimant expressed the opinion that decedent was so disabled that he ‘ ‘ should not have been…