In re the Claim of Richman

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 11, 1997, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he failed to file a valid original claim.

Claimant, an attorney employed by the State Department of Economic Development, challenges a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board finding him ineligible to receive benefits because he was employed in a major nontenured policymaking or advisory position within the meaning of Labor Law § 565 (2) (e). The record reveals that claimant regularly made policy…