Claim of Smith v. Waterview Nursing Home

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 16, 2003, which ruled that claimant had voluntarily withdrawn from employment and denied her further workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant, a 63-year-old nurse’s aide, sustained multiple injuries on February 24, 1999 when she was kicked by a patient. She filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits and a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge established her case for work-related injuries to her back, head and neck. Thereafter, she was evaluated by various physicians, including the physician for the *745employer’s workers’…