Smith v. Aerospace
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Casey, J.
The employer and its insurance carrier contend that the Workers’ Compensation Board erred in discharging the Special Funds Conservation Committee (hereinafter Special Fund) from liability on the death claim filed by claimant. We agree.
Special Fund’s liability, if any, in this case is predicated upon the "dust disease” provisions of Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (8) (ee). All parties concede that the immediate or direct cause of decedent’s death was, as listed on the death certificate, primary mesothelioma of the pleura (cancer of the lining of the lung), which is…
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