Claim of Kingston v. Rochester Products, G. M. C.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed October 22, 1976. Claimant underwent a tubal ligation sterilization procedure on April 4, 1975. She, thereafter, filed a claim for disability benefits for related lost time. The board in affirming the referee by a split vote, found that the tubal ligation was purely elective and that the disability resulting from the operation was not illness within the limits of subdivision 8 of section 201 of the Disability Benefits Law (Workmen’s Compensation Law, art 9). The question of the compensability of a tubal ligation was considered…