Claim of Derello v. Wyndham Poughkeepsie Hotel

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 19, 1992, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained an accidental injury in the course of his employment.

Claimant, a doorman and driver for Wyndham Poughkeepsie Hotel (hereinafter the employer), sustained serious injuries shortly after midnight on December 25, 1987 when he was involved in an accident after driving a coemployee, Gigi Battle, home in the employer’s shuttle van. Although there is no question that claimant was engaged in a legitimate business errand when he drove Battle home, it is the position of…