In re the Claim of Natale

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 6, 1996, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because she voluntarily left her employment without good cause.

On July 25, 1996, without prior notification, claimant informed her employer that she was taking a leave of absence. Claimant contends that she needed the leave to alleviate work-related tension which was adversely affecting a back injury she had sustained in a car accident a few weeks earlier. Claimant did not provide the employer with medical proof…