Claim of Feldman v. National Transportation

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from *1025a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for death benefits. While working as a waiter, decedent suffered a heart attack and died upon the employer’s premises. He was then 68 years old. As his widow testified and the board found, he had been sick for 15 years as a result of a heart condition. His physician had advised him not to work “more than a day or two at most.” Customarily, he worked two days each week. He took medication regularly. “If he had to walk up steps or a half block, he would take a pill in his mouth to…