NY EMT Wins Case for Lyme Disease

Denise Chapman's holiday gift was an award from the New York State's Workers' Compensation Board upholding a workers' compensation judge's grant of benefits to cover advanced Lyme disease. After fighting for five years, the Board voted Tuesday to uphold a decision granting disability benefits to the former city EMT who claimed that she caught Lyme disease while performing her job as an emergency medical technician. Chapman was diagnosed with Lyme disease in February of 1997, more than six months after she treated a homeless man in the Bronx. By that time, however, the disease was in an advanc...