Radhika was traveling to Philadelphia to evaluate medical equipment at two different hospitals before returning home that night. She planned no ground transportation and did not want to rent a car because she was unfamiliar with the area. She ran into a manufacture’s rep going to the first hospital and they agreed to split the cost of a shuttle. The shuttle turned out to be a limousine and after her first appointment she took the limo to the second hospital by herself. Her agency refused to reimburse her for the $299 limo cost. The Board noted that with the wealth of information available on the internet, it was extremely easy to determine distances she would need to cover and types of transportation available in an unfamiliar place concluding it would have been reasonable to use a taxi. The Board concluded that a prudent person would not have spent $299 for a limo and stated the cost for a taxi would have been the limit she would have been entitled to (Radhika Patole, CBCA 770-TRAV).

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