Claim of D'Addio v. Peter Annis, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed October 3, 2011, which ruled that the application by the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier for review of a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge’s decision was untimely.

Decedent, who had a previously established claim for occupational disease due to asbestosis, died in 2009 and claimant, his widow, thereafter filed this claim for workers’ compensation death benefits. Following a hearing, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) concluded that decedent had suffered a work-related death and, insofar as is…