A New York appellate court upheld a finding that a worker forfeited his entitlement to benefits by failing to disclose his injuries from a prior compensable accident after he was injured at work a second time.
Case: Matter of Ortiz v. Calvin Maintenance, No. 532221, 11/18/2021, published.
Facts and procedural history: Manuel Ortiz worked for Calvin Maintenance as a laborer. He suffered injuries in a fall from a ladder in August 2009.
Ortiz established his entitlement to benefits for injuries to his head, neck and back and later amended to include a consequential psychiatric condition.
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