Legal Opinion
Claim of Wallas v. Mastic Beach Excavation, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 26, 2005PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarpinello, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 9, 2004, which ruled that claimant’s death was not causally related to his employment.
On October 3, 2003, claimant apparently suffered a cardiac arrest and died while working for Mastic Beach Excavation, Inc. Claimant was found by a coworker slumped over a piece of excavation equipment where he had been working alone. A claim for workers’ compensation death benefits was apparently filed on claimant’s behalf and controverted by the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier. Although a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge…
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