the Claim of Streleck v. Sheahan

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, as amended, filed December 18, 1975. While in the course of his employment, the decedent was involved in an unwitnessed accident when his car left a wet roadway, mounted the curb and knocked down a sign, ultimately coming to rest against some wire stanchions. Decedent died two days later without having regained consciousness. The autopsy protocol indicated death resulting from a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by the rupture of an aneurysm. The referee found accident, notice and causally related death and on review the board…