In re the Claim of Albrecht v. Orange County Community College

Appeal from a letter decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, dated September 13, 1979, which refused to reconsider disallowance of a claim for death benefits. In 1969 Walter Albrecht, the deceased employee, an associate professor at the Orange County Community College, died in Africa while on sabbatical leave, ostensibly from poliomyelitis. A claim for death benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Law was made. Following a tortuous series of hearings and decisions in November, 1974, a board panel disallowed the claim. This court, one Justice dissenting, after observing that the board’s…