Claim of Nattier v. Elmsford Transportation Co.

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 15, 1980. Claimant was employed as a driver for a school bus and messenger service. Company policy permitted some drivers, including claimant, to take their assigned vehicles home at night and return to work with them the following workday. All expenses of operation and maintenance were assumed by the employer. Although a company rule prohibited the use of such vehicles for personal reasons without a supervisor’s permission, drivers routinely did so with the employer’s knowledge and escaped sanction. Shortly after…