ZENITH INS. CO. v. WORKERS' COMP. APP. BD.

Docket No. 25606.

124 Cal.App.3d 176 (1981)

176 Cal. Rptr. 920

ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and DOROTHY THWEATT, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

October 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Chernow & Lieb and Alex S. Chernow for Petitioner.

Banks, Leviton, Kelley, Drass & Kelsey and Seth J. Kelsey for Respondents.


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...

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