MATTER OF FORTUNATO v. CROCKER CO.


70 A.D.2d 678 (1979)

In the Matter of the Claim of Gladys Fortunato, Respondent, v. Crocker Company et al., Appellants. Workers' Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 3, 1979


The employer and its insurance carrier appeal from that part of the decision of the board, which awarded death benefits to the widow of the deceased employee based upon findings that the decedent fell while working and a subsequent fatal heart attack was causally related thereto. Decedent, employed as the superintendent of an apartment building, was requested to clean up an oil spill on the stairs between the second and third floors of the building. A witness testified that...

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