Legal Opinion
Wachtler v. AT&T
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 12, 2001PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Mugglin, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 23, 1999, which ruled that claimant did not sustain an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.
Claimant, an office worker, transferred to his employer’s high-rise global network center in August 1992. The office where claimant worked consisted of one room with five rows of desks and two cubicles, one of which claimant occupied. A lunch room was located adjacent to this office space and a smoking room was adjacent to the lunch room. Smoking also took place in private offices adjacent to…
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