Legal Opinion
Claim of Pulos v. Asplundh Tree
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 4, 2006PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMugglin, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 30, 2005, which ruled that claimant sustained a causally related occupational disease and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.
Claimant, a tree trimmer, had his case established in 1997 for the occupational disease of bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. Thereafter, claimant sought to amend the claim by including an occupational disease pertaining to his cervical spine condition. After a workers’ compensation law judge disallowed the application on the basis that the condition “was symptomatic and *1074required active treatment…
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