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414 A.2d 220

Smith v. Smith

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1980-05-09

Relies on Lovejoy v. Beech Hill Dry Wall Co., Inc.

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Decided 1980-05-09

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Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Waste Management of Carolinas, Inc. v. Peerless Insurance (1986), 126 Wash. 2d 50 - Queen City Farms, Inc. v. Central Nat'l Ins. Co. of Omaha (1995)

13 federal appellate · 19 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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¶1MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

¶2The employee, Basil E. Smith, appeals from a pro forma decree of the Superior Court affirming the denial by the Workers’ Compensation Commission of his petition for compensation benefits. The record provides evidentiary support for the commissioner’s conclusion that the employee’s heart attack on November 16, 1977, did not occur “in the course of” his employment, See 39 M.R.S.A. §§ 51, 99 (1978). The commissioner could reasonably have disbelieved the employee’s testimony that he first experienced pain that day while at work, which was in direct conflict with the medical history elicited from him by the attending physician shortly after the incident occurred. See Lovejoy v. Beech Hill Dry Wall Co., Me., 361 A.2d 252 (1976).

¶3The entry is;

¶4Appeal denied.

¶5Judgment affirhied.

¶6Further ordered that the employer pay to the employee an allowance for counsel fees in the amount of $550.00 together with his reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for this appeal.

¶7All concurring.

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