Claim of Crump v. Saint Patrick's Church

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 21, 2005, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was not causally related to his employment.

Decedent, claimant’s husband, collapsed at work and died shortly thereafter of coronary artery disease. Because decedent was at work and the incident was unwitnessed, his death was presumed to have been causally related to his employment (see Workers’ Compensation Law § 21 [1]). The self-insured employer initially failed to rebut that presumption (see Matter of Babson v Finch Pruyn & Co. Inc., 25 AD3d 936, 937 [2006]),…