Zenith Insurance v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

TAMURA, J.

Petitioner Zenith Insurance Company (Zenith), a workers’ compensation carrier, seeks review and annulment of a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision awarding full death benefits, medical benefits, and burial expenses to the widow of an employee who died of work-induced congestive heart failure. Zenith maintains that 50 percent of the contributing cause of death was a cumulative heart injury sustained by the employee during an earlier period of employment and that therefore the board should have permitted the widow to recover only 50 percent of the death and other…