Eldeco, Inc. v. Romines

I respectfully dissent from the denial of the petition for the writ of certiorari. Ted Romines’s mental predisposition to the on-the-job-injury, hypertension in this case, does not except his hypertension, a physical injury, from the definition of “injury” in the Workers’ Compensation Act.

“ ‘Preexisting diseases or other predisposition does not prevent compensability. The employer takes the worker as he finds him. It is not necessary that the employment conditions be the sole cause, or dominant cause, so long as they are a contributing cause.’ ”

Ex parte Valdez, 636 So.2d 401, 405 (Ala.1994)…