Claim of Osterberg v. Columbia University

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed May 22, 1975, as supplemented by decision filed December 15, 1976. The death of claimant’s decedent occurred in Philadelphia where he had been sent by his employer to give a series of lectures. Accordingly, any injury or death during the entire period he was required to be there would be compensable so long as he was engaged in a reasonable activity at the time of the incident for which compensation is sought (Matter of Schneider *676v United Whelan Drug Stores, 284 App Div 1072). Although accident, notice and causal relation were…