Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 8, 2005 (In re the Claim of Soler)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 28, 2004, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he voluntarily left his employment without good cause.

In April 2004, claimant visited his mother in Puerto Rico, at which time he learned that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer a year earlier.