Greer v. John E. Green Plumbing & Heating Co.

Plaintiff appeals by leave granted from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which denied his claim for disability compensation.

Plaintiff sought compensation for a bad heart condition and chest pains sustained while engaged in heavy physical labor as a plumber in 1971. Defendants deposed Dr. Vernal Cambridge, M.D., plaintiffs treating physician, in January, 1973. Plaintiffs attorney did not attend this deposition. A second deposition was taken from plaintiffs medical expert, Dr. Helen Winkler, M. D., on January 17, 1974. At the referee’s hearing on January 22, 1974,…