Claim of Usherson v. Greeley Mills, Inc.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The problem presented by this ease is whether the employer and carrier or the Special Disability Fund under section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law shall be liable for the payments of compensation to be made to the claimant on a reopened case. The board has discharged the Special Fund. The question turns upon how the language of subdivision 1 of section 25-a is to be read. In its pertinent parts it requires the award to be made against the fund and not *810the employer and carrier after seven years from the date of…