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TOVISH v. GERBER ELECTRONICS

(14848)

229 Conn. 587 (1994)

MAUREEN C. TOVISH ET AL. v. GERBER ELECTRONICS ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 7, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Wilson Williams, for the appellants (defendants).

Robert R. Sheldon, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Saranne P. Murray and Raymond M. Bernstein filed a brief for the Connecticut Business and Industry Association as amicus curiae.

Douglas L. Drayton filed a brief for the Insurance Association of Connecticut et al. as amici curiae.

PETERS, C. J., CALLAHAN, BERDON. KATZ and PALMER, Js.

PER CURIAM.

In this workers' compensation appeal, the sole issue is whether an "outside salesman" was engaged in the course of his employment or in mere preparatory activities when he sustained a fatal heart attack as a result of shoveling snow from his driveway. The named plaintiff, Maureen C. Tovish, suing on behalf of herself and her two minor children, filed a workers' compensation claim arising out of the death of her husband, Richard Tovish, on January 20, 1987...

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