Legal Opinion
Claim of Padilla v. New York City Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 26, 1987PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 4, 1985.
The employer appeals from an award of death benefits, contending that the Workers’ Compensation Board erred in relying upon the testimony of claimant, who is decedent’s widow as to certain statements made by decedent and in accepting the opinion of claimant’s medical expert. Decedent, employed as a plasterer, collapsed after working on a ceiling for approximately 45 minutes. Efforts to revive him proved futile; the certificate of death lists the immediate cause of death as occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis.…
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