McVey v. General Motors Corp.

Defendant, General Motors Corporation, appeals by leave granted from an opinion and order of the Worker’s Compensation Appeal Board granting plaintiff an open benefit award of $147 per week. The wcab found that plaintiff had established by a preponderance of the evidence that he was totally disabled as the result of both a work-related heart condition and a work-related nervous condition. We reverse.

Plaintiff began working for defendant in 1954 as a journeyman electrician. For several years, plaintiff’s job assignment alternated between electrical construction work and repair welding.…