Claim of Sutter v. Albany Capitaland Enterprises, Inc.

Appeal from an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 6, 2001, which ruled that First Cardinal Corporation failed to effect a valid termination of the employer’s policy of workers’ compensation insurance.

In September 1996 claimant, a bus driver, allegedly sustained a work-related injury to his ankle and back. An issue thereafter arose as to whether claimant’s employer was insured by its group self-insurance carrier, Empire State Transportation Workers’ Compensation Trust, on the date of the purported accident. First Cardinal Corporation, the carrier’s administrator,…