Claim of Puig v. New York Armenian Home

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 15, 2008, as amended by decision filed August 1, 2008, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was causally related to his employment.

In November 2003, claimant’s husband was discovered lying on the floor of a bathroom that he had just cleaned in the nurs*1445ing home where he was employed as a maintenance worker. He had no pulse and was not breathing when emergency personnel arrived, and shortly thereafter he was declared dead as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest. Claimant’s subsequent application for workers’…