Case regarding compensatory employment damages

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Nitis  v.  Goldenthal

March 16, 1987

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lerner, J.).

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff suffered a heart attack while employed by the Bechtel Corporation on a project in Algeria, and became totally and permanently disabled as a result. As a Bechtel employee, the plaintiff was covered by two group accident policies issued by the Life Insurance Company of North America (hereinafter LINA), each in the amount of