Legal Opinion
Claim of Koch v. Rockland County Sheriff's Department
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 20, 2001PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLahtinen, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 11, 2000, which ruled that claimant’s injury did not arise out of his employment and denied his claim for workers’ compensation benefits.
*866Claimant, who was employed in the employer’s correction division, was injured in a union-sponsored softball game between employees of the correction division and employees of the patrol division. The Workers’ Compensation Board concluded that the injury did not arise out of claimant’s employment, prompting this appeal by claimant.
Where, as here, an employee is injured in a voluntary…
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