Claimant underwent a tubal ligation sterilization procedure on April 4, 1975. She, thereafter, filed a claim for disability benefits for related lost time. The board in affirming the referee by a split vote, found that the tubal ligation was purely elective and that the disability resulting from the operation was not illness within the limits of subdivision 8 of section 201 of the Disability Benefits Law (Workmen's Compensation Law, art 9). The question of the compensability...
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