Claim of Deblasio v. New York City Department of Highways

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 21, 1996, which ruled that claimant’s current condition was not related to his employment.

In March 1984, claimant sustained an injury to his left arm while lifting a heavy object at work. Claimant subsequently began exhibiting symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, which eventually worsened to the point that claimant became totally disabled from his employment. Thereafter, in April 1992, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge determined that the March 1984 injury aggravated claimant’s preexisting Parkinson’s disease and found that…