Legal Opinion
Claim of Stevenson v. Yellow Roadway Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 20, 2014Published
1Opinion of the CourtStein, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 4, 2012, which ruled that decedent’s death was causally related to his employment.
On March 17, 2010, decedent, a tractor trailer operator employed by Yellow Roadway Corporation, crashed his tractor trailer into a toll booth and sustained critical injuries. At some point either before or after the accident, decedent suffered a massive stroke and died two days later. Claimant, his widow, subsequently filed a claim for workers’ compensation death benefits, as well as a claim on his behalf. After a notice of indexing was mailed…
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