Claim of Krebbeks v. Lakeland Concrete Products

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision which discharged from liability the Special Disability Fund under subdivision 8 of section 15 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Under the statute and the long-settled decisional law, imposition of liability upon the Fund depends upon a showing that the second injury occurred after the employee had been employed or continued in employment with knowledge or an informed judgment by the employer of a permanent physical impairment, which was or was likely to be a hindrance to employment; and upon proof, additionally, that the second…