Legal Opinion
Claim of Leon v. Newman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 17, 2005PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMugglin, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 21, 2004, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was an employee of Steven Newman.
On February 20, 2001, claimant was plastering a ceiling on the second floor of a building located at 335 West 38th Street in Manhattan when he fell from a scaffold and injured himself. The building was being renovated into apartments and the unit in which claimant was working was owned by Steven Newman and was used as his residence. Following claimant’s injury, he made an application for workers’ compensation benefits and *883also commenced a…
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