Claimant filed a request to reopen a 1963 claim for occupational loss of hearing based upon a 1980 amendment to Workers' Compensation Law § 49-bb (L 1980, ch 324). The Workers' Compensation Board awarded compensation based on a 1963 date of disablement, which mandated the liability of the Special Fund for Reopened Cases (Workers' Compensation Law § 25-a), but subsequently rescinded its decision and remanded the claim to a Workers...
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