A New York appellate court ruled that a worker who participated in the World Trade Center terrorist attack clean-up efforts was not entitled to be classified as having a total industrial disability.
Case: Matter of Reyes v. Nationwide Furniture Installers, No. 535519, 12/28/2023, published.
Facts and procedural history: Audis Reyes participated in the clean-up of certain buildings after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
In 2018, Reyes established a workers' compensation claim for causally related chronic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, asthma and drug-induced diabetes....
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