Claim of Alperin v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 19, 1975. The record establishes conclusively that the claimant, on March 12, 1971, suffered a condition of acute heart failure or insufficiency caused by an excessive work effort. The appellants have prosecuted this appeal upon a shortened record, but it appears to be essentially undisputed that the claimant sustained an accidental injury on March 12, 1971 because of the aggravation of a pre-existing heart defect caused by a damaged aortic valve. The appellants contend that the record does not contain any substantial…