Claim of Kovary v. American Woolen Co.

Appeal by the Special Fund for Reopened Cases under section 25-a from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Appellant has limited this appeal, taken upon an abbreviated record, “ to the issue of whether or not the claimant’s refusal to undergo surgery for his right hernia is unreasonable”, and we consider no-other question. The three physicians to testify advised the operation. It appeared, however, that claimant’s hernia was operated upon in 1949, recurred in 1950, was operated upon in that year and recurred in 1951. The operating surgeon said that the second recurrence…