Claim of Multari v. Keenan Oil Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 25, 2001, which ruled, inter alia, that a waiver agreement encompassed claimant’s major depression condition.

Pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 32, claimant, his employer’s workers’ compensation carrier and the Special Funds Conservation Committee executed a proposed settlement agreement whereby claimant, in exchange for $93,000, agreed to close two established compensation cases arising from work-related accidents in 1972 and 1994. Following a hearing before the Commissioner of the Workers’ Compensation Board, during…