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Matter of Gamble v. N.Y. St. Narcotics Addict

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Dec 22, 1977
60 A.D.2d 703 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)

Summary

affirming agency award to worker who "sustained a psychic trauma resulting from his job change" and then committed suicide

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Opinion

December 22, 1977


Appeal from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Board, filed March 19, 1976, which found that decedent's death on January 16, 1973 was causally related to his employment. The board found: "On the basis of the probative medical and credible lay evidence that the claimant sustained a psychic trauma resulting from his job change and that such psychosis and mental derangement caused the suicide thereby constituting an accidental injury within the meaning of the law. The job change precipitated the outbreak of anxiety and bizarre thinking which resulted ultimately in the development of psychosis and thereafter hospitalization psychiatrically." There is substantial evidence to sustain the determination of the board. Decision affirmed, with costs to the Workmen's Compensation Board against the employer and its insurance carrier. Koreman, P.J., Greenblott, Sweeney, Mikoll and Herlihy, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Gamble v. N.Y. St. Narcotics Addict

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Dec 22, 1977
60 A.D.2d 703 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)

affirming agency award to worker who "sustained a psychic trauma resulting from his job change" and then committed suicide

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awarding compensation for a mental breakdown and suicide caused by a job change

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In Gamble v. New York State Narcotics Addict Control Comm'n, 60 A.D.2d 703, 400 N.Y.Supp.2d 599 (1977), the court held that a psychic trauma relating to a job change was compensable.

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Case details for

Matter of Gamble v. N.Y. St. Narcotics Addict

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Claim of LESLIE GAMBLE, Respondent, v. NEW YORK STATE…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department

Date published: Dec 22, 1977

Citations

60 A.D.2d 703 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)

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