Claim of Leone v. Patrick Leone & Sons Plumbing & Heating

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board filed May 10, 1985, which ruled that claimant sustained a compensable injury and awarded benefits.

The Workers’ Compensation Board, reversing an Administrative Law Judge, determined that the 56-year-old claimant, a plumbing contractor with a moderate degree of arteriosclerotic heart disease, sustained an accidental injury when he suffered an acute coronary occlusion and myocardial infarction. This injury was the consequence of his involvement in a fierce telephone argument occurring on the morning of April 23, 1981. The…