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CARPENTER'S CASE

SJC-10525

456 Mass. 436 (2010)

DAVID CARPENTER'S (DEPENDENT'S) CASE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Canniff (John F. Keefe with him) for the insurer.

Peter T. Toland for the claimant.

Paul M. Moretti & Scott K. Lueker, for Property Casualty Insurers' Association of America, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

Ireland, J.

David Carpenter (employee), a custodian at an elementary school in the city of Woburn (employer), died at the age of fifty-two while at work and after operating a heavy, commercial snow blower. He experienced "sudden cardiac death" (SCD) due to ventricular arrhythmia.1 The employer's workers' compensation insurer, MIIA Workers' Compensation SIG (insurer), appeals from a decision of the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial...

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