Claim of Dunham-Grimm v. Columbia County Health Department

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 8, 1992, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a causally related disability and denied her claim for benefits.

The causal relationship between employment and a disease or its effect upon a preexisting condition are factual questions *936for the Workers’ Compensation Board (see, Matter of Dando v Binghamton Bd. of Educ., 111 AD2d 1060; Matter of Lemery v Flintkote Co., 105 AD2d 538). We find that there is support in the record for the Board’s findings that the necessary causal relationship between the initial outbreak of…