A New York appellate court upheld a carpenter’s entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits for prostate cancer tied to his work at the World Trade Center.
Case: Matter of Dyer v. Centre Street Systems Inc., No. 526943, 10/03/2019, published.
Facts and procedural history: Rudolph Dyer filed workers’ compensation claim forms indicating that he had performed carpentry work at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He asserted that he had developed prostate cancer because of his work at the WTC location between Sept. 11, 2001, through Jan. 1, 200...
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