Soileau v. Chet & Kennys Auto Parts, Inc.
Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., July 2, 1969 225 So. 2d 122; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., December 15, 1951 56 So. 2d 227; La., February 15, 1880 32 La. Ann. 142
Soileau v. Chet & Kennys Auto Parts, Inc., 337 So. 2d 604 (La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1976).
Cited by
- SCHNEIDER AS TUTRIX OF SCHNEIDER v. Strahan 422 So. 2d 1377 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1982
- Guidry v. Sline Indus. Painters, Inc. 418 So. 2d 626 La. 1982
- Lonzo v. Holsum Bakeries, Inc. 363 So. 2d 1280 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1978
- Landreneau v. Travelers Insurance Co. 345 So. 2d 177 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1977
- Soileau v. Chet & Kennys Auto Parts, Inc. 340 So. 2d 994 La. 1977
Opinion text
REDMANN, Judge. From a judgment rejecting his workmen’s compensation claim for failure to prove that work caused his heart attack, plaintiff appeals. Plaintiff first noticed chest pain on a Sunday morning at home. He went to a hospital where, after a normal electrocardiogram and in the absence of other symptoms, gastritis was the diagnosis (angina pectoris is the hindsight diagnosis). Despite advice to rest at home, plaintiff returned to his work as manager of an auto parts store, working five and a half days a week. Monday morning two weeks later, while being driven to work, plaintiff had an acute myocardial infarction resulting in disability. Had the heart attack occurred at work, or had it followed closely upon some identifiable beginning at work, plaintiff would recover. But we cannot disagree with the trial judge’s conclusion that work-causation was not shown. The two weeks of work between initial pain and infarct did not, according to the preponderance of the evidence, more probably than not cause the infarct. Affirmed.