Claim of Murphy v. Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 22,1987.

Claimant, employed as an emergency room physician by the self-insured employer, sustained a series of transitory ischemic attacks on March 18, 1982. He was awarded benefits as a *887result of that incident by a Workers’ Compensation Board decision dated April 29, 1986, from which no appeal was taken. Following his initial attack on March 18, 1982, claimant continued to work for the employer until he suffered a stroke at his home on December 26, 1982, after having been on duty in the emergency room the day before. He…