Claim of Hardy v. TRICO

Appeals from two decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 22, 2009 and December 28, 2009, which directed each of the employers’ workers’ compensation carriers to make a deposit into the aggregate trust fund pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 27 (2).

Claimants in the present cases sustained work-related injuries that were ultimately found to constitute permanent partial disabilities. As the injuries themselves occurred prior to a 2007 amendment to Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) (w), there is no “cap on the number of weeks for which . . . claimant[s] *1048can receive that…