Claim of Umanzor v. General Telecom

Appeals from a decision and an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 28, 2003 and November 18, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was not entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 16 (4-a).

Decedent was working for the employer on September 11, 2001 when she was killed in the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center in New York City. At the time of her death, she was 27 years old and resided with her stepfather, half sister, half brother and claimant, her mother, in an apartment in Queens. After decedent’s…