MATTER OF DECANDIA v. PILGRIM PSYCHIATRIC CTR.

532168.

196 A.D.3d 953 (2021)

151 N.Y.S.3d 544

2021 NY Slip Op 04404

In the Matter of the Claim of John Decandia, Appellant, v. Pilgrim Psychiatric Center et al., Respondents. Workers' Compensation Board, Respondent.

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

Decided July 15, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Clennan , Ronkonkoma, for appellant.

Tanisha S. Edwards , State Insurance Fund, Albany ( Katherine Mason-Horowitz of counsel), for Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and another, respondents.

Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Clark and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.


Claimant, a safety and security officer for the employer, filed an accident report alleging that, while on patrol in June 2013, he was bitten by two ticks. Almost six years later, claimant filed a claim for workers' compensation benefits seeking to recover for injuries allegedly sustained as the result of unknown tick bacteria entering...

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