Legal Opinion
Claim of Coningsby v. New York State Department of Corrections
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 31, 1997PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtYesawich Jr., J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 17, 1997, which ruled that claimant did not sustain an accidental injury in the course of his employment and denied workers’ compensation benefits.
Claimant, a correction officer at Cayuga Correctional Facility in Cayuga County, was injured in a motor vehicle accident while driving to work in his personal vehicle. Fully uniformed, he had driven two miles past the facility to a local restaurant, to purchase a sandwich for his lunch, and was traveling back to the facility to commence his shift when the accident occurred,…
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