Legal Opinion
Matter of Hunter v. Town of Hempstead
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 30, 2015No. 519766PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEgan Jr., J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 25, 2014, which ruled, among other things, that claimant voluntarily removed himself from the labor market.
Claimant, a sanitation worker, sustained a work-related back injury in 1996 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. Claimant returned to work later that year, and a finding of permanency was not made. In 2005, liability for the claim was shifted to the Special Fund for Reopened Cases. In the interim, claimant obtained workers’ compensation benefits as the result of other injuries to both knees, his left foot…
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