Claim of Dunn v. Supervised Investors Services, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed May 7, 1969, which awarded death benefits to the claimant. Decedent was employed as the regional representative of the appellant, an investment adviser and underwriter for two mutual funds. It was decedent’s duty to promote the sale of these funds to security dealers, who would sell them to their customers in New York and New England. On April 8, 1964, he went to Boston and contacted one Martel, a stockbroker for Eastman Dillon, a large brokerage firm. Martel and decedent had been classmates at college, had attended the same…