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THIRD DEPARTMENT DECISIONS DEALING WITH WORKERS COMPENSATION

  • Writer: GREY & GREY
    GREY & GREY
  • Jul 5, 2016
  • 2 min read

Today the appellate division decided one case dealing with workers’ compensation issues.

In Matter of Capalbo , the Court rejected the carriers appeal of a denial for reconsideration or Full Board review.

Decedent was employed as a steamfitter at the Indian Point nuclear power plant until September 2007, when he passed away from lymphoma. Claimant, decedent’s wife, filed a claim in August 2009 for workers’ compensation death benefits, asserting that decedent’s lymphoma was the result of his exposure to radioactive agents during his employment. Following a hearing in November 2009, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge found prima facie medical evidence that the death was compensable and ordered that if the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier (hereinafter collectively referred to as the carrier) wished to submit an independent medical examination report contesting causality, such report must be submitted within 45 days. At a hearing in February 2010, the Workers’ Compensation Law Judge extended the carrier’s time for submitting the report. Claimant appealed and, in July 2010, the Workers’ Compensation Board reversed, finding that the carrier had waived its opportunity to produce such a report, having failed to do so in the time originally prescribed. The Board further found that the carrier waived its opportunity to cross-examine claimant’s medical expert, having failed to make such a request. The carrier’s subsequent application for reconsideration or full Board review was denied and this appeal ensued.

The Court stated that the merits of the Board’s July 2010 decision were not properly before this Court, as the carrier failed to appeal that decision and appealed only from the Board’s denial of its request for full Board review and/or reconsideration (see Matter of Dipippo v Accurate Signs & Awnings, 88 AD3d 1044, 1045 [2011]; Matter of Maqsood v McRoberts Protective Agency, 79 AD3d 1547, 1547 [2010], lv dismissed 16 NY3d 871 [2011]). The Court’s analysis was therefore limited to deciding whether the Board’s denial was the an abuse of discretion or otherwise arbitrary and capricious (see Matter of Siliverdis v Sea Breeze Servs. Corp., 82 AD3d 1459, 1460 [2011]; Matter of Maqsood v McRoberts Protective Agency, 79 AD3d at 1547). The Court declined to disturb the Board’s decision, as the record establishes that it addressed all relevant issues and the carrier did not present any evidence that was previously unavailable (see Matter of Maqsood v McRoberts Protective Agency, 79 AD3d at 1547; Matter of Gentile v Sovereign Motor Cars, 77 AD3d 1027, 1028 [2010], lv dismissed 16 NY3d 824 [2011]).

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