Legal Opinion
Petrocelli v. Sewanhaka Central School District
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 25, 2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 28, 2007, which ruled, among other things, that the presumption of a causally related death pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 21 had been rebutted.
Claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent) died while coaching a high school basketball game. An autopsy was performed. Decedent’s death certificate listed as the cause of death a spontaneous rupture of the splenic artery with hemoperitoneum, due to portal hypertension complicating cirrhosis of the liver and chemotherapy for treatment of a primitive neuroectodermal…
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