In re the Claim of Cooper

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 18, 2001, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant had been employed as a service representative for an insurance agency when she notified the employer that a medical condition would prevent her from working for several weeks. She submitted a one-sentence statement from her physician containing the information that claimant would be out of work for approximately five weeks “due to medical reasons.”…