Claim of Wood v. Albany County Highway Department

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant suffered a back injury in November, 1937 and the Workmen’s Compensation Board approved a lump sum nonsehedule settlement of $2,500 on May 21, 1951. On March 16, 1960 almost nine years later claimant sent a letter to the board requesting the claim be reopened. The board reopened the claim and after hearings discharged the Special Fund. This was done on the theory that at the rate of $8.04 per week projected to the extent of the lump sum settlement, the last payment of compensation would be May 8, 1957. (Workmen’s…