Farrington v. Total Petroleum, Inc

Defendant Total Petroleum, Inc., and its workers’ compensation insurer, Hartford Insurance Company, appeal by leave granted from a November 21, 1988, decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appellate Commission, which affirmed a magistrate’s award of benefits to plaintiff for a period of disability following a heart attack.

The workers’ compensation magistrate awarded plaintiff benefits at the rate of $284.72 a week for a closed period between February 27, 1986, and April 21, 1986, finding as fact that plaintiff had a preexisting coronary artery disease, that this disease was aggravated by work…