Legal Opinion
Claim of Adams v. Univera Health Care/Excellus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 2, 2006PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 22, 2004, which ruled that claimant sustained a compensable injury and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.
Claimant worked as a patient service representative for the employer but had to stop working due to severe coughing episodes, apparently brought on by exposure to environmental irritants. Claimant filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits and, following development of the record with regard to the issue of causality, a workers’ compensation law judge found that claimant sustained an accidental…
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