Claim of Kwitkowski v. Charles S. Wilson Memorial Hospital

Appeal by both general and special employers and their insurance carriers from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board apportioning an award of compensation equally against the employers. Claimant was a student nurse in the general employ of Charles S. Wilson Memorial Hospital at Johnson City, N. Y. In order to obtain training in tuberculosis nursing claimant took a course of eight weeks’ training at the Herman M. Biggs Memorial Hospital at Ithaca, N. Y., under a contract between the two institutions. Claimant’s course at Ithaca would normally have been completed on July 29, 1946, but…