Claim of Grant v. New York City Transit Authority

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 28, 2009, which ruled that claimant did not sustain an accidental injury in the course of her employment and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant, an agent at the employer’s 125th Street station, was on her lunch break and had walked across the street from the station to a deli to purchase something to drink when she and the deli clerk were both robbed at gunpoint. She applied for workers’ compensation benefits, claiming that she suffers from psychiatric disabilities as the result of the traumatic…