Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Louis Anthony Turitto, Respondent, against St. Mary's Hospital and The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-09-27
Citations: 257 A.D. 1094
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Louis Anthony Turitto, Respondent, against St. Mary’s Hospital and The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 257
Pages: 1094–1094

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Louis Anthony Turitto, Respondent, against St. Mary’s Hospital and The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.

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.