Claim of Quail v. Central New York Psychiatric Center

—Lahtinen, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 20, 2000, which ruled that claimant had a 10% schedule loss of use of the right hand.

After claimant’s workers’ compensation case based on injuries sustained in 1995 was closed pending the submission of medical evidence on the issue of permanency, the consultant for the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier, in a September 1998 report, concluded that claimant had a 10% schedule loss of use of the right hand. Asserting that his treating physician had found a 20% schedule loss of use of the right hand in a…