Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York June 30, 2011 (Claim of Hunt v. Price Chopper/Golub Corp.)

Mercure, J.P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 22, 2010, which ruled that Workers’ Compensation Law § 25-a did not apply.

Claimant, a truck driver for the self-insured employer, injured his back in July 1994 after falling from a truck while in the process of hitching a trailer.