Claim of Gillard v. Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc.

Appeal from an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 10, 2011, which, among other things, ruled that the employer and its third-party administrator were not entitled to reimbursement from the Special Disability Fund.

Claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent) was repeatedly ex*1122posed to asbestos in the course of his work for the employer. He applied for workers’ compensation benefits in 1995 and, in 1998, the Workers’ Compensation Board established decedent’s claim and found him to be permanently partially disabled by asbestos-related pleural disease. After decedent…