Claim of Kessler v. Board of Higher Education

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 11,1980, which held claimant to be an employee within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law. Claimant is a registered nurse and a professor of nursing at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. On September 5,1978, while at work, she bent down and hit her left eye on the edge of a table. She sustained a 100% loss to the left eye. The claim was controverted on the ground that claimant was not covered under the Workers’ Compensation Law. Specifically, it is claimed that claimant is a teacher…