Claim of Turitto v. St. Mary's Hospital

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Claim of Turitto v. St. Mary's Hospital

257 A.D. 1094, 14 N.Y.S.2d 647, 1939 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9224

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided September 27, 1939·Published

Opinion

Claimant has an award for the permanent loss of use of the left eye, from which an appeal has been taken. He is a physician and was working as an interne in a hospital, which was his employer. While attending a patient, who had been operated upon and was suffering from an acute C\ C. urethritis, the gonococcus germs got upon claimant’s hand and thence into his eye causing a gonnorheal infection necessitating the enucleation and the resultant total loss of vision. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Crapser, Bliss, Heffernan and Sehenek, JJ.

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Claimant has an award for the permanent loss of use of the left eye, from which an appeal has been taken. He is a physician and was working as an interne in a hospital, which was his employer. While attending a patient, who had been operated upon and was suffering from an acute C\ C. urethritis, the gonococcus germs got upon claimant’s hand and thence into his eye causing a gonnorheal infection necessitating the enucleation and the resultant total loss of vision. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Crapser, Bliss, Heffernan and Sehenek, JJ.

Claim of Turitto v. St. Mary's Hospital, 257 A.D. 1094, 14 N.Y.S.2d 647, 1939 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9224 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1939).

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