Claim of Baum v. Hylan Group Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 22, 2011, which denied the application of the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier to reopen the claim.

Claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent) was murdered at work, and the ensuing claim for workers’ compensation death benefits was established in 2004. The employer and its workers’ compensation carrier (hereinafter collectively referred to as the employer) requested that the case be reopened in 2010, pointing to evidence that decedent’s murder was unconnected with his employment. The Workers’ Compensation Board…