MATTER OF FIGUEROA


53 A.D.2d 792 (1976)

In the Matter of the Claim of Fernando Figueroa, Appellant. Louis L. Levine, as Industrial Commissioner, Respondent

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

June 24, 1976


Whether good cause exists for leaving employment is a factual matter for the board to resolve and in this case claimant maintained at the hearing that he left because, as a witness to a murder, he feared for his personal safety. However, it was also within the province of the board to pass upon the credibility of claimant's testimony and it here rejected his account. Accordingly, the board properly relied upon his earlier statements that he left for personal reasons and ...

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