Claim of Beck v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

Appeal from an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 24, 2013, which ruled, among other things, that the employer and its third-party administrator were not entitled to reimbursement from the Special Disability Fund.

In 1997, claimant’s husband (hereinafter decedent) established a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for asbestos related pleural disease and chronic irritative bronchitis, resulting from prolonged asbestos exposure at work. Following his death from lung cancer in 2005, claimant applied for death benefits. The employer and its third-party…