Legal Opinion
Claim of Salters v. Town of Woodstock
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 16, 1999PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Cardona, P. J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 24, 1997, which ruled that the intracerebral hemorrhage suffered by claimant’s decedent was not causally related to his employment and denied her claim for workers’ compensation death benefits.
Claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent), who was employed by the Town of Woodstock as its Chief of Police, sustained an intracerebral hemorrhage in April 1992 during an executive session of the Town Board which had been called to discuss police personnel matters. Decedent died some 20 *721months later after suffering a…
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