MATTER OF DEARSTYNE v. NEW YORK STATE DEP'T OF PUB. WORKS


70 A.D.2d 1006 (1979)

In the Matter of the Claim of Richard Dearstyne, Appellant, v. New York State Department of Public Works, et al., Respondents. Workers' Compensation Board, Respondent

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

June 21, 1979


Claimant sustained two lower back injuries, one on July 17, 1956 and the other on October 17, 1956. Both cases were closed and the last payment of compensation on either case was made on December 4, 1958. He again injured his back on December 6, 1973. On March 1, 1974 the North River Insurance Co., the carrier on the 1973 risk, formally requested that the Workers' Compensation Board reopen the two cases closed in 1958 because of similarity of injuries with those sustained...

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