Bland v. Gellman

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 14, 2012, which denied claimant’s request for a variance.

In 1993, a workers’ compensation claim was established for claimant (claim No. 1), and responsibility for such claim was thereafter transferred to the Special Fund for Reopened Cases in 2008. A second claim was established with a 2008 date of disablement (claim No. 2), for which Travelers Insurance Company is responsible, and liability was thereafter apportioned equally between the claims. In October 2011, claimant’s treating physician requested a variance for…