White v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Appeal from decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed *965February 28, 1974 and April 19, 1974. The issues presented are whether the tubal ligation surgery to which claimant subjected herself and which resulted in postoperative inability to work was merely elective surgery and, if so, whether she is disqualified from receiving benefits under the Disability Benefits Law during the postoperative period. Claimant, an assembly-line worker, underwent a tubal ligation and was unable to work during the postoperative recuperation period. Her claim for disability benefits was rejected by the…