Claim of Murphy v. Hopkins & Reilly Mason Contractors

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 28, 1980 and a corrected decision filed August 12, 1980, which awarded claimant disability benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Law. In October, 1975, claimant, a bricklayer, filed a compensation claim against an employer for whom he had worked 10 weeks in 1974, alleging that by reason of that employment he sustained an occupational disease in the nature of asbestosis. Medical evidence causally relating his claimed disability to that work was not forthcoming and the case was closed. On…