Claim of Wasserman v. Chef

Appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board, filed February 15, 1977, and an amended decision, filed February 18, 1978, which affirmed a referee’s decision and held that claimant’s malpractice action against certain physicians was a third-party action within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law. As a result of compensable injuries which he concededly sustained on February 28, 1971, claimant was classified as permanently partially disabled with a one-third earning capacity, and he began receiving payments of compensation from his employer’s insurance carrier, Cosmopolitan…