MATTER OF HARE v. CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL


50 A.D.3d 1254 (2008)

855 N.Y.S.2d 741

In the Matter of the Claim of JAMES HARE, Appellant, v. CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL et al., Respondents. WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD, Respondent.

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

Decided April 11, 2008.


Mercure, J.P.

During his 23-year employment as a laborer and millwright at a paper mill, claimant sustained numerous injuries, including those arising out of an accident in which a coworker dropped two 500-pound bales of paper onto claimant's head, neck and back. In 1999, the mill was sold to another owner and claimant's employment was terminated. This Court affirmed the denial of his claim for compensable lost time through December 29, 2000, upon a finding that claimant...

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