MATTER OF MATEO v. ALPHA MECHANICAL CORPORATION


2 A.D.3d 1000 (2003)

768 N.Y.S.2d 250

In the Matter of the Claim of FRED MATEO, Appellant, v. ALPHA MECHANICAL CORPORATION et al., Respondents. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 11, 2003.


Spain, J.

Claimant, a steamfitter, collapsed while hoisting a steel pipe atop a scaffold and thereafter applied for workers' compensation benefits. Following a hearing, a Workers' Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) found that claimant had established a compensable injury based upon evidence that the stress of claimant's work activities had triggered his preexisting heart disease and hypertension, causing a cardiac event on the day in question. Finding insufficient...

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