Medress v. Bond Clothes Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kane, J. P.

Claimant’s decedent sustained a compensable injury to his left hand on July 22,1969. Treatment for that injury accelerated the growth of an existing malignant tumor in the hand which ultimately spread, causing his death from lung cancer on March 11, 1978. A scheduled award for 90% loss of use of the left arm was reversed by decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board filed December 16,1976, for the reason that there was a continuing active malignant process underway which was not static and, thus, decedent’s condition was not medically amenable to a schedule…