Vermette v. Utica-Oswego Motor Express

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 18, 1989, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained a compensable injury and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

The testimony of claimant’s expert medical witness amply supports the conclusion that the neurological damage to claimant’s brain was a result of the head trauma he suffered as a consequence of his fall and the subsequent craniotomy performed on him. Although the expert medical witness for the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier testified to the contrary, it was within the province of the Workers’…