Claim of Zafuto v. Knowles-Fisher Corp.

Appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board discharging the Special Fund for Reopened Cases under section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law from liability. On March 11, 1958 claimant, a machine molder in a foundry, sustained an accidental injury to his back. Claimant was thereafter periodically paid compensation benefits with the last payment, prior to reopening, on *988December 14, 1964. Conceitedly actual reopening occurred more than seven years from the date of the accident and more than three years from the last payment of…