Eastham v. Whirlpool Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “At the hearing the parties stipulated and agreed that plaintiff was an employee of the defendant on April 17, 1986, at an average weekly wage of $249.60; that he did have a heart attack on that date and that there is a disagreement between the parties as to whether or not the heart attack arose out of and in the course of his employment. That the deposition of Ronald R. Mas-den, M.D., taken on December 21, 1988, was admitted in evidence; that Plaintiff's Exhibit 1, being Medical Records, was also stipulated into evidence. That in the event it's found to be a compensable claim, the Hearing Judge will order statutory medical to be paid. Said Hearing Judge having heard the stipulation and evidence and having reviewed the file and being duly advised in the premises, now adopts as findings the above stipulation. It is further found that on or about April 17, 1986, the plaintiff was performing his usual and normal occupation for the defendant and specifically, on said date, was patching holes in the highway which required him to shovel materials from the bed of a dump truck onto the ground below; that while so performing said duties he became short of breath and felt pain in his chest area, which pain he had noticed intermittently within two prior weeks. Thereafter, he sought immediate medical treatment by Dr. Ronald Masden, who diagnosed him having a coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, and that he had suffered, as a result of said disease, an occlusion of the left anterior des”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Glenn v. Board of Commissioners

2. “"(a) As used in this chapter, "occupational disease" means a disease arising out of and in the course of the employment. Ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is exposed outside of the employment shall not be compensable, except where such diseases follow as an incident of an occupational disease as defined in this section. (b) A disease arises out of the employment only if there is apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of all of the cireumstances, a direct casual connection between the conditions under which the work is performed and the occupational disease, and which can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, and which can be fairly traced to the employment as the proximate cause, and which does not come from a hazard to which workers would have been equally exposed outside of the employment. The disease must be incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of employer and employee. The disease need not have been foreseen or expected but after its contraction it must appear to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duvall v. ICI Americas, Inc.