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Where claimant's physician testified that it was "difficult to determine" when claimant's meniscus tear occurred and that there was "a strong possibility" that something which happened at work could have exacerbated claimant's chronic condition, such medical testimony was too tenuous to support an award. Claimant had to show more than a mere possibility; there had to be some showing of an actual causal relationship between the employment and the medical condition for which the claimant sought benefits.
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See Matter of Johnson v. Borg Warner, Inc., 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4991 (Sept. 3, 2020)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 130.06.
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