Claim of Furchtsam v. Binghamton General Hospital

The employer and its carrier appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for disability due to a staphylococcus infection of the middle ear which was found to he an occupational disease within the purview of section 3 (subd. 2, par. 29) of the Workmen’s Compensation Law and to have been contracted by claimant’s exposure in the course of her hospital employment as a general duty nurse. The failure of appellants to overcome the presumption contained in section 47 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law was the predicate of the board’s finding. There was proof that…