MATTER OF BERKOWITZ v. HIGHMOUNT HOTEL


281 A.D. 1000 (1953)

In the Matter of the Claim of Alexander Berkowitz, Respondent, v. Highmount Hotel et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

April 6, 1953.


In so doing the board reversed, in the interest of justice, the decision of a referee, who had held that claimant's refusal to be further hospitalized for additional examination and medical tests would be unreasonable. On July 23, 1948, when cutting cheese in the course of his employment, claimant accidentally cut off the soft tip of his left index finger. Infection followed, which spread to his left arm and shoulder. Infectious thrombophlebitis thereafter developed in various...

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