Claim of Sillitti v. Liberty Travel, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed October 1, 2009, which, among other things, ruled that the exacerbation of claimant’s preexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was temporary.

In 2005, while working for Liberty Travel, Inc., claimant was diagnosed as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (hereinafter COPD). In 2006, claimant was transferred to Liberty’s office in the hamlet of Sayville, Suffolk County. After one week of working there, claimant fell ill with bronchitis and was out of work for a week. Soon thereafter, mold was found at that location…