Matter of Stoerzer v. City of New York

This is a claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 67). The claimant is a physician employed by the Department of Correction of the city of New York. In the course of his regular duties he was incising the hand of an inmate of one of the city prisons, in Brooklyn, when his scalpel slipped, cutting his own finger and causing a serious infection. As a result of this infection he was unable to work for several months and it has been found that he has suffered a permanent loss of the use of his left thumb, amounting to seventy-five per cent, and of the left- index finger of…