The sole issue on this appeal is whether the Workers' Compensation Board erred in awarding claimant disability benefits for the period of her hospitalization and convalescence following a gastroplasty, bilateral distal salpingectomy. The employer and its insurance carrier argue that the surgery upon this overweight claimant was purely elective, thereby disqualifying her from benefits (see, Matter of Fullerton v General Motors Corp...
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