Claim of Boocia v. City of New York

Appeal by the City of New York, a self-insured employer, from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board granting an award of death benefits. Appellant raises three arguments here: that a prior decision dismissing as an “ afterthought, a claim by decedent for disability benefits on the same causal factors to which death was ultimately found causally connected was res judicata-, that there is no substantial evidence that death was caused by an occupational hernia condition; and that certain evidence was erroneously accepted.” The last two issues, however, were not properly raised in the…