Legal Opinion
Claim of Martinez v. LeFrak City Management
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 8, 2012Published
1Opinion of the CourtMcCarthy, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 16, 2010, which ruled that claimant violated Workers’ Compensation Law § 114-a and disqualified him from receiving additional workers’ compensation benefits.
Claimant worked for the employer as a porter while at the same time separately pursuing a career as a professional boxer. On July 30, 2004, claimant took part in a featherweight boxing match at the Mohegan Sun Casino that ended in his disqualification. Casino records and hospital reports show that, in the course of that match, claimant sustained, among other things, an…
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