Legal Opinion
Claim of Valentin v. THB Intermediaries Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 30, 2004PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Spain, J.P.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 24, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant did not sustain a further causally related disability.
Claimant, who had been employed as a secretary in a building near the World Trade Center on the morning of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, filed for workers’ compensation benefits, alleging that her evacuation from the building and subsequent exposure to smoke and debris from the destruction of that day had given her respiratory distress. Her claim for occupational asthma, uncontroverted by the…
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