Claim of Tucker v. City of Plattsburgh Fire Department

As the majority correctly notes, although the Workers’ Compensation Board “cannot rely upon expert opinion evidence that amounts to nothing more than pure speculation, the Workers’ Compensation Law does not require that medical opinions be expressed with absolute or reasonable medical certainty” (Matter of Qualls v Bronx Dist. Attorney’s Off., 146 AD3d 1213, 1214 [2017] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted], lv denied 29 NY3d 906 [2017]). Rather, when seeking to establish a causal connection between a claimant’s employment and the asserted disability, “all that is required is that…