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Article: California Court of Appeal rules no comp for fatal aneurysm following spat at work
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- December 24, 2008
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The widow of an employee who suffered a fatal aneurysm isn't
entitled to workers' compensation - even though she argued that her
husband's death was triggered by a heated argument with his
supervisor, the has ruled in an unpublished decision overturning an
award of benefits. The husband had worked as a cement mason. His co-
workers found him slumped over in his truck at a jobsite. Efforts to
revive him were unsuccessful and it was determined that he had
suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm.
His widow applied for death benefits under the state's workers'
compensation law, contending that the rupture of her husband's
aneurysm arose out of his employment because it was caused by a
heated ...