Opinion
November 5, 1970
Appeal from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Board, filed July 28, 1969. The board determined that the "experience of the decedent on January 28, 1966 imposed upon him great emotional stress and strain, far in excess of the usual wear and tear of life, that it resulted almost immediately in a ventricular fibrillation culminating in his demise, that said work activity and fatal fibrillation constitutes an accidental injury within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Law." On the record that finding has substantial evidence to support it "within the principle that an injury caused by emotional stress or strain may be found to be accidental within the purview of the Workmen's Compensation Law". ( Matter of Eckhaus v. Adeck Stores, 11 N.Y.2d 862; Matter of Klimas v. Trans Caribbean Airways, 10 N.Y.2d 209.) Decision affirmed, with costs to the Workmen's Compensation Board. Herlihy, P.J., Staley, Jr., Greenblott, Cooke and Sweeney, JJ., concur.