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Calim of Gomez v. Windows On the World
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 23, 2005PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCardona, P.J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 6, 2004, which ruled that claimant is the legal widow of decedent and awarded her workers’ compensation death benefits.
Wilder Gomez (hereinafter decedent) died on September 11, 2001 in the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center in New York City. When claimant applied for a workers’ compensation death benefit as decedent’s surviving spouse, «Elisa Gomez Escalante objected and likewise sought a death benefit as decedent’s surviving spouse. It appears that decedent married Escalante in his native Colombia in 1984 and,…
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