Claim of Gigliotti v. Niagara County Sheriff's Department

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 19, 1992, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a causally related disability and denied his claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant, a Niagara County Deputy Sheriff, was involved in an auto accident on his way to work. The record discloses that departmental policy required a uniformed police officer to stop and give assistance to the public upon coming upon an immobilized vehicle. Claimant, on the day of the accident, left home fully uniformed and armed with his service revolver, which he was not…