Claim of Castillo v. Bank of Nova Scotia

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 16, 1998, which ruled that claimant sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment.

Claimant, a clerk, was injured when she stood up from her desk to deliver a facsimile transmission, became dizzy and fell to the floor. The day before her fall, claimant had returned to work from a leave of absence following a valvuloplasty procedure five months earlier to treat mitral valve stenosis. At the conclusion of the hearing that followed, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge rejected claimant’s testimony…