Legal Opinion
In re the Claim of Crawley
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 21, 1959PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
The appeal, here by our permission, involves the reach of our decision in Matter of Meszaros v. Goldman and Matter of Braunstein v. General Mar. Repair (307 N. Y. 296) and calls upon us to decide whether, in the case of successive industrial accidents or disablements resulting from occupational disease, an award may be made against the last employer, based not on wage-earning capacity at the time of the latest accident or disablement, but on the highest wage earned by the claimant in any of his employments between his first and latest injury or disability. More concretely, is an award against…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Claim of Anderson v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1931
- Claim of Meszaros v. GoldmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
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