Procedural Flub Prevented Board From Accepting Worker's Resignation Letter as Evidence

A New York appellate court ruled that the state Workers’ Compensation Board could not consider an injured worker’s resignation letter in determining her entitlement to benefits, since her employer did not complete an affidavit explaining why it had not submitted the document. Case: Matter of Casale v. St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, No. 523818, 12/14/2017, published. Facts: Louise Casale worked for the St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center as a ward clerk. She slipped and fell in the hospital’s parking lot in 2008. Casale later established a workers’ compensati...