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Williams v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided October 22, 2009PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLahtinen, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 7, 2008, as amended by decision filed June 5, 2009, which ruled, among other things, that claimant was not a participant in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant was employed as an auditor with the New York City Department of Social Services and worked in lower Manhattan at 180 Water Street. Within a week of the terrorists’ attacks on September 11, 2001, she returned to work at that location, but her job duties were temporarily…

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