Claim of Peterson v. Suffolk County Police Department

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 17, 2002, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a causally related injury and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

On January 1, 1997, claimant slipped and fell on ice while leaving her employer’s premises, injuring her left knee. She filed a workers’ compensation claim and the case was established for accident, notice and causal relationship for this injury. In the months following the accident, claimant began experiencing problems with her right knee as well, and a second workers’ compensation claim was…