Claim of McCann v. Hy-Al Luncheonette Co.

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from an award of death benefits made to the widow of a deceased employee. Decedent was employed as a part-time counterman in a luncheonette. He was found during working hours behind a counter in an unconscious condition, and after being revived was taken to a hospital. About two weeks after his discharge from the hospital he “ passed out in a subway ”, and later lapsed into a coma. He was returned to a hospital, operated on to control an epidural hemorrhage and died three days later. There is substantial evidence connecting decedent’s death with…