GUIDRY v. SLINE INDUS. PAINTERS, INC.

No. 81-C-3116.

418 So.2d 626 (1982)

Mrs. Alcide GUIDRY, Indiv., etc. v. SLINE INDUSTRIAL PAINTERS, INC. et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Trahan, Raggio, Cappel, Chozen & Bernard, Lake Charles, for applicant.

Bernard H. McLaughlin, Jr., Robert S. Dampf, Stockwell, Sievert, Viccelio, Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, for respondent.


CALOGERO, Justice.

Plaintiff's husband, an industrial painter, died shortly after suffering a heart attack on his job. It was an acute myocardial infarction secondary to atherosclerotic heart disease.

The narrow question in this workmen's compensation case is whether the admitted accident (heart attack) which caused Mr. Guidry's death, to be compensable, must in some degree have been causally related to physical stress, strain, or exertion of the job; and...

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