The husband of an AT&T manager who died from a blood clot after sitting at her desk for more than 10 hours is entitled to workers' compensation benefits, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled.
In its decision, the court upheld a lower court's ruling that Cathleen Renner died from a pulmonary embolism shortly after she finished working a 10-hour, sedentary shift at her computer in her home office in Edison, N.J.
"There's an awful lot of people that do nothing but sit in front of computers for work these days, and there's a certain risk involved with that," said Patrick Caulfield, a lawyer for the family.
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