Legal Opinion

Claim of MacDonald v. Penske Logistics

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 9, 2006PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCarpinello, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 11, 2005, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was not causally related to his employment.

In May 2000, claimant’s husband, a truck driver for Penske Logistics, was found dead in the cab of his truck a few hours after he had completed a delivery. Following a postmortem examination, the medical examiner concluded that the cause of death was severe coronary heart disease. Following hearings to determine whether the claim was compensable under Workers’ Compensation Law § 21 (1), the Workers’ Compensation Law…

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