MATTER OF WOOD v. ALBANY COUNTY HIGHWAY DEP'T


18 A.D.2d 743 (1962)

In the Matter of the Claim of Leland Wood, Respondent, v. Albany County Highway Department et al., Appellants, and Special Funds Conservation Committee, Respondent. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 28, 1962


Claimant suffered a back injury in November, 1937 and the Workmen's Compensation Board approved a lump sum nonschedule settlement of $2,500 on May 21, 1951. On March 16, 1960 almost nine years later claimant sent a letter to the board requesting the claim be reopened. The board reopened the claim and after hearings discharged the Special Fund. This was done on the theory that at the rate of $8.04 per week projected to the extent of the lump sum settlement, the last payment...

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