Claim of Casale v. City of Rye

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 1, 2012, which, among other things, ruled that claimant’s counsel fee award was a lien against any future payments of compensation to be made to claimant.

Claimant, a police officer for the City of Rye, Westchester *905County, submitted a claim for workers’ compensation benefits after sustaining a fractured wrist on the job in July 2010. The employer did not controvert the claim and paid claimant full wages during the period of his disability, for which it sought reimbursement from its workers’ compensation carrier. On…