IN THE MATTER OF PETROCELLI v. SEWANHAKA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT


54 A.D.3d 1143 (2008)

864 N.Y.S.2d 212

In the Matter of the Claim of DENISE PETROCELLI, Appellant, v. SEWANHAKA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Respondents. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD, Respondent.

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

September 25, 2008.


MERCURE, J.

Claimant's husband (hereinafter decedent) died while coaching a high school basketball game. An autopsy was performed. Decedent's death certificate listed as the cause of death a spontaneous rupture of the splenic artery with hemoperitoneum, due to portal hypertension complicating cirrhosis of the liver and chemotherapy for treatment of a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the right adrenal gland. Claimant thereafter filed a claim for workers' compensation...

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