MATTER OF SCHUELER v. MERCY HOSPITAL


290 A.D.2d 684 (2002)

735 N.Y.S.2d 662

In the Matter of the Claim of CATHERINE SCHUELER, Respondent, v. MERCY HOSPITAL et al., Appellants. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD, Respondent.

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

Decided January 10, 2002.


Crew III, J.P.

Claimant, a nurse employed at Mercy Hospital located in the City of Buffalo, Erie County, was assigned to an acute geriatric nursing home placement floor, where her duties required a great deal of lifting of nonambulatory patients during the course of her seven-hour shifts. In January 1997, claimant experienced back pain while at work, as the result of which she treated with a chiropractor. Thereafter, on February 11, 1997 and February 12, 1997, while...

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