Claim of Guarino v. Natslock, Inc. & Natlock

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 10, 1999, which ruled that claimant did not sustain an occupational disease and denied workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant was employed by Natslock, Inc. & Natlock as an executive salesperson which required that he work at a computer and use a telephone throughout most of his eight-hour work day. In July 1992, after working for Natslock for approximately 15 years, claimant was forced to leave his employment because of severe neck pain and seek workers’ compensation benefits claiming an aggravation of a congenital…