Miller v. Stoddard Restaurant

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed December 13, 1974. In 1945, claimant’s decedent, Benjamin Miller, sustained severe burns as a result of an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. In 1946, he was hospitalized for mental illness and such illness was found to be causally related to the 1945 accident. The carrier paid for the deceased employee’s treatment at various New York State institutions and hospitals and when the decedent was placed in a community care home in 1972 he was also awarded the cost of his care at that home. As the…