Hammersmith, Inc. v. Zanfardino

SHAW, Judge.

The deceased claimant, a shipping clerk at employer’s wholesale grocery warehouse, was required as a condition of employment to take a polygraph (lie detector) examination. During an investigation of pilferage, he took and failed two such tests. A few minutes after taking a third test, he complained of numbness in his leg. He was ministered to by a rescue squad, but developed respiratory problems and was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The cause of death. was a dissecting aneurysm of the aorta (ruptured aorta). The deputy found that being wired…