Claim of Lopez v. City of New York

Appeal by the attorneys for claimant from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed April 21, 1972, which denied their claim for legal services. The Referee, at the same hearing at which an award was made covering a six and two-fifths weeks period of disability and at which the ease was continued for six months, allowed $35 for attorneys’ fees but provided that it was not to be a lien on the award. Juanita Lopez, a dietary aide at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, was injured stepping off one of employer’s elevators on July 11, 1971 and was paid her wages from July 12, 1971 to…