Crimen v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

JANVIER, Judge.

The question in this forma pauperis compensation case is whether the physical condition from which plaintiff now suffers results from a degenerative bone or joint condition of gradual development, becoming more and more painful from day to day, or can be said to have resulted from a series of occupational occurrences each causing pain but each of such slight traumatic significance that no one of them, without considerable exaggeration, can be designated as an accident.

There is no dispute over the rate of pay of plaintiff on which compensation payments, if due, should be based,…