Claim of Langenmayr v. Syracuse University

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed October 24, 2001, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was permanently totally disabled and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

In March 1992, claimant left her job as a secretary at Syracuse University (hereinafter the self-insured employer) because she was experiencing respiratory problems as the result of being exposed to indoor air pollutants in the building where she worked. She subsequently applied for workers’ compensation benefits and her case was eventually established for occupational disease, notice and causal…