Maisel v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.

Claimant’s decedent suffered a fatal heart attack at approximately 7:00 on a cold winter morning subsequent to shoveling his driveway and prior to entering his car to go to work. Claimant applied for workers’ compensation benefits contending that decedent had been en route to a breakfast meeting with a client when he suffered the attack and therefore sustained a compensable accidental injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment. The Hearing Officer awarded benefits but the Workers’ Compensation Board reversed on the ground that claimant had not yet begun his journey to work…