In re the Claim of Torres

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 18, 1996, which, upon reconsideration, adhered to its prior decision ruling that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

Claimant worked as a dispatcher’s aide for a security company until he left his employment, ostensibly to elude a coworker and his associates who were threatening claimant due to his failure to repay a loan. Substantial evidence supports the ruling of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that claimant…