Cipriano v. Onondaga County Corrections

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 6, 2007, which, among other things, ruled that claimant sustained a permanent total disability.

In the course of his employment as an assistant correction commissioner, claimant suffered a heart attack in 1987, underwent coronary bypass surgery and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits in 1989. In 1990, he stopped working due to stress-related angina episodes. Workers’ compensation benefits were awarded for that condition as well. Claimant was found to have a permanent partial disability, which was apportioned equally…