Title: Tintera v. Armour & Co.

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

362 So. 2d 1344 (1978)
Henry Robert TINTERA, Petitioner,
v.
ARMOUR & COMPANY et al., Respondents.
No. 52514.

Supreme Court of Florida.
September 21, 1978.
*1345 Ted L. Wells and Howard C. Hadden, Tampa, for petitioner.
Ernest L. Currin and Gwynne A. Young, of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa, for respondents.
ALDERMAN, Justice.
We have for review by petition for writ of certiorari the decision of the Industrial Relations Commission reversing the order of the Judge of Industrial Claims who had found claimant's heart attack to be an injury by accident arising out of, and in the course of, his employment. The Industrial Relations Commission reversed the judge because he had failed to follow the decision of this Court in Victor Wine & Liquor, Inc. v. Beasley, 141 So. 2d 581 (Fla. 1962). We approve the decision of the Industrial Relations Commission and deny certiorari.
Relating to compensability of heart attacks precipitated by strain and exertion, this Court adopted the following rule in Victor Wine:
In his finding that the heart attack was compensable, the Judge of Industrial Claims found:
The Judge of Industrial Claims made no finding that the type of activity or emotional stress precipitating claimant's heart attack constituted unusual strain or overexertion not routine to the type of work he was accustomed to performing.
*1346 Explaining that Barlow has been superceded and overruled by Victor Wine, the Industrial Relations Commission held that the judge's reliance on Barlow was misplaced. Before the Industrial Relations Commission, claimant contended that he had met the "unusual strain or overexertion not routine to the type of work he was accustomed to performing" test by showing that he had been forced to labor in an unfriendly atmosphere created by an employer who was trying to drive him from his job. The employer denied this allegation. The Industrial Relations Commission found, however, that, even accepting claimant's version of the evidence, it did not feel that this was the type of stress contemplated by Victor Wine and stated:
We agree with the decision of the Industrial Relations Commission and, therefore, deny certiorari. Mosca & Co., Inc. v. Mosca, 362 So. 2d 1340 (Fla. 1978) filed September 21, 1978; Chicken `n' Things v. Murray, 329 So. 2d 302 (Fla. 1976); Mahler v. Lauderdale Lakes Nat'l Bank, 322 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 1975); Scholastic Systems, Inc. v. LeLoup, 307 So. 2d 166 (Fla. 1974).
It is so ordered.
ENGLAND, C.J., and OVERTON, SUNDBERG and HATCHETT, JJ., concur.