https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=372598 Death from sudden cardiac failure while on duty may be treated as an accident arising out of and in the course of employment where the work creates or aggravates the strain leading to death. Applying Section 3 of the Employees Compensation Act, 1923, the Court reiterated that compensation depends on a causal connection between employment and injury or death, including where work-related stress contributes to or accelerates an internal collapse. On that test, the Court held that the Commissioner had not applied the correct legal standard for employment-related accidental death, and the compensation claim was restored for fresh adjudication. en-us Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:38:50 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=372598 Death from sudden cardiac failure while on duty may be treated as an accident arising out of and in the course of employment where the work creates or aggravates the strain leading to death. Applying Section 3 of the Employees Compensation Act, 1923, the Court reiterated that compensation depends on a causal connection between employment and injury or death, including where work-related stress contributes to or accelerates an internal collapse. On that test, the Court held that the Commissioner had not applied the correct legal standard for employment-related accidental death, and the compensation claim was restored for fresh adjudication. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=372598