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MATTER OF REEVES v. CHARLES PFIZER & CO., INC.

22 N.Y.2d 950 (1968)

In the Matter of the Claim of Frederick Reeves, Respondent, v. Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., et al., Appellants, and Special Fund for Reopened Cases, Respondent. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 17, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Knauf for appellants.

James P. Lynch and John M. Cullen for Special Fund for Reopened Cases, respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Morris N. Lissauer, Ruth Kessler Toch and Daniel Polansky of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING, BREITEL and JASEN.

Order affirmed, with costs. Following the closing of the case on October 27, 1958, the employer continued to pay claimant his full wages, although he was unable to do the work he had performed prior to the accident. These payments, therefore, constituted advance payments of compensation, and were made within three years of the reopening of the case. Hence, the Fund for Reopened Cases is not liable under section 25-a of the Workmen's Compensation Law, and the board properly...

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