Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 15, 2001 (Claim of White v. Food)

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 19, 2000, which ruled that claimant had given timely notice of injury.

The Workers’ Compensation Board is entitled to assess the credibility of witnesses and “is the sole and final arbiter of whether the testimony of a particular witness is worthy of belief’ (Matter of Altman v Hazan Import Corp., 198 AD2d 674, 675).