Court Overturns Denial of Benefits to Son of Fatal Heart Attack Victim

The Illinois Appellate Court overturned a denial of benefits for the son of a worker who died of a heart attack. Richard Cronk worked for Kimball Hill Homes as a construction manager. He complained of difficulty breathing while shoveling snow at a build site in December 2006. Co-workers summoned paramedics, and Cronk went into cardiac arrest in front of them. He was taken to the hospital and died. The coroner concluded that the immediate cause of death was hypertensive cardiovascular disease with coronary atherosclerosis as a significant contributing factor. Dr. Richard Carroll report...