Widow Gets Award for Husband's Fatal Heart Attack

The South Carolina Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to the widow of a communications department supervisor who had a fatal heart attack while monitoring radio systems during a police standoff. Case: Britton v. Charleston County, No. 2018-UP-368, 09/19/2018, unpublished. Facts: On the morning of Sept. 8, 2014, deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office reported to the Garden Apartments in response to a report of an assault. The suspect had barricaded himself in an apartment and exchanged gunfire with Deputies Michael Ackerman and Joseph Matuskovic. Both de...