Claim of Davis v. Concourse Gardens, Inc.

Appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which denied reimbursement from the Special Disability Fund under subdivision 8 of section 15 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant was hired as a pantryman in a restaurant and the injuries which gave rise to this claim were sustained the same day. The respondent Special Fund concedes that claimant then suffered from long preexisting permanent conditions of solid ankylosis of the left hip joint and marked atrophy of the left thigh and calf. There was uncontradicted medical evidence of…