Legal Opinion
Claim of Funke v. Eastern Suffolk BOCES
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 13, 2011PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.
Appeal from an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 30, 2009, which ruled that claimant had involuntarily retired but that subsequent lost earnings were not causally related to claimant’s work-related disability.
Claimant, a former teacher’s assistant for special needs students, sustained a work-related injury to her neck, back and shoulder when she was assaulted by a student in 2005. She was awarded workers’ compensation benefits and returned to work a month later. In 2007, the claim was amended to include consequential post-traumatic stress disorder, and…
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