The claimant sought to add the neck and thoracic spine to an established New York Workers’ compensation claim arising from an August 2024 workplace accident. The contemporaneous medical record told a different story: the treating provider repeatedly documented that those complaints began after a separate fall at home in January 2025.
LOIS Associate Ryan Wallace and Paralegal Samantha Barker built a focused chronology from the treatment records and used the treating physician’s testimony to confirm that the neck and thoracic conditions arose only after the later non-work-related event. Their presentation kept the analysis centered on the actual onset of symptoms rather than the claimant’s later characterization of the conditions.
The Workers’ Compensation Law Judge agreed and disallowed both additional injury sites. The ruling prevented the workplace claim from absorbing medical and indemnity exposure attributable to an unrelated accident and shows how early medical-record collection and precise timeline analysis can materially narrow a claim.
