Legal Opinion
Jefferson v. Bronx Psychiatric Center
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 16, 1982PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
Under section 25 (subd 4, par [a]) of the Workers’ Compensation Law, an employer’s “advance payment of compensation” or “payments to an employee in like manner as wages” during a period of disability need not be voluntary in order to be reimbursable. So their character is not altered when, as here, they are required to be made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement. (See Matter of Adolf v City of Buffalo Bd. of Educ., 50 NY2d 871 [contract provision, at p 875].)
While, therefore, without more, this…
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