Legal Opinion
Claim of Bonneau v. New York City Department of Sanitation
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 27, 1996PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardona, P. J. Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 1, 1994, as amended by decision filed December 12, 1995, which ruled, inter alia, that claimant timely filed a claim for asbestosis.
In December 1988, claimant, then retired from his position as a stationary firefighter for the New York City Department of Sanitation (hereinafter the employer), filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits describing the nature of his injury as "lung cancer” resulting from his exposure to asbestos at his workplace. It is undisputed that claimant had been diagnosed, and…
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