Dearstyne v. New York State Department of Public Works

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 28, 1977, which modified a referee’s decision and held that claimant’s application for reopening was untimely. Claimant sustained two lower back injuries, one on July 17, 1956 and the other on October 17, 1956. Both cases were closed and the last payment of compensation on either case was made on December 4, 1958. He again injured his back on December 6, 1973. On March 1, 1974 the North River Insurance Co., the carrier on the 1973 risk, formally requested that the Workers’ Compensation Board reopen the two cases closed…