Anzalone v. Traveler's Insurance

In a proceeding pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 29 (5) to obtain judicial approval of a compromise and settlement of a personal injury action, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (McCarthy, J.), entered May 13,1988, which, after a hearing, denied the petition.

Ordered that the order is reversed, with costs, the petition is granted and the compromise settlement is approved.

We agree with the petitioner that the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying his application for an order approving the compromise and settlement of the…