Legal Opinion
Williams v. Orange & Sullivan Excavating Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 13, 2014PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*803In a proceeding pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 29 (5) to approve the settlement of the petitioner’s personal injury action nunc pro tunc, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Slobod, J.), dated June 14, 2012, which granted the petition.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly granted the petition to approve the settlement of the petitioner’s personal injury action nunc pro tunc pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 29 (5). Pursuant to that statute, an employee may settle a lawsuit arising out of the same incident as his…
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