Bugliari v. New York State Colleges

—Graffeo, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 1, 1997, which ruled that the employer made advance payments to claimant and thereby waived the defense of the Statute of Limitations.

In the mid-1980s, claimant developed multi-infarct dementia as a result of stress-induced psychiatric problems related to his employment as a tenured business law professor at Cornell University. Thereafter, his employer provided him with a student assistant, installed couches in his office to permit him to rest and granted him an extended paid leave of absence. Claimant…