Chung v. Animal Clinic, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that where evidence directly conflicts, “the legislature has decided that the conflict should be resolved in claimants’ favor”
• finding that despite employer having offered a plausible alternative medical explanation for claimant’s heart attack, including arteriosclerosis and jogging, the “heart attack was work-connected” and therefore compensable
• adopting the “work-connection” approach to determining compensability because it more “fairly carnes out the purposes of Hawaii’s workers’ compensation laws”
• adopting the “work-connection” approach to determining compensability because it more “fairly carries out the purposes of Hawaii’s workers’ compensation laws”
• refusing to pierce corporate veil in order to deny owner/employee’s workers’ compensation benefits
• “the work-connection approach simply requires the finding of a causal connection between the injury and any incidents or conditions of employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).