Claim of Gans v. Active Equipment Supply, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which awarded benefits to respondent employee, who was the president and manager of the corporate employer; appellants (1) invoking section 28 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law whereby the “right to claim compensation * * 't shall be barred * * * unless within two years after the accident * 11 * a claim for compensation shall be filed with the chairman ” and (2) asserting that the requirement of the statute was not met by the filing of an employer’s report of injury (the form C-2), which was, of course, purely a report, and made no “…