Legal Opinion
Claim of Wilson v. Southern Tier Custom Fabricators
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 15, 2008PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 12, 2006, which, among other things, ruled that claimant sustained a work-related occupational disease and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.
Claimant was employed as a sheet metal worker for nearly 40 years. In May 2002, he was diagnosed as suffering from asbestosis. He filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits in April 2003, and the matter proceeded to a hearing. Ultimately, the issue distilled to identifying the employer in whose employment claimant suffered his last injurious exposure to asbestos (see Workers’…
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