In our claim, the claimant fell down stairs on March 9, 2015 and subsequently injured her ankle. The accident was witnessed and accepted. Medical treatment and lost time compensation were provided. The injury to the left ankle was her only complaint for the next month.
The claimant appealed, arguing that she had provided credible medical evidence on causal relationship. The carrier argued that the decision be affirmed.
The Board Panel noted that “it is claimant’s burden to establish a causal relationship between his employment and his disability by competent medical evidence.” See Matter of Sale v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 6 AD3d 999 (2004); Matter of Keeley v. Jamestown City School Dist., 295 AD2d 876 (2002).
In summary the Board Panel disallowed the claim for the additional sites for the following reasons:
In October, the Food and Drug Administration directed the recall of all tissue harvested by Biomedical. It also urged that recipients of tissue that originated with Biomedical be tested for communicable diseases.
Reid, employees under his supervision, and others at the UCLA Medical Center appeared to have avoided detection by keeping some of the donated cadavers “off the books” and by possibly accepting cadavers that were never recorded.
Although Tully appeared to be closely linked to the case, was named in the first two lawsuits, and was even the subject of an internal police department investigation, he has now mysteriously vanished from the matter. No public statement has been issued by the NYPD, Tully, or anyone else as to whether he was cleared of any culpability or still has some involvement.
The state agency only licenses the funeral homes and directors in Pennsylvania.
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