Legal Opinion
Claim of Landgrebe v. County of Westchester
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 1, 1982PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
In a matter of first impression in this court, we are called upon to decide whether, pursuant to section 25 (subd 4, par [a]) of the Workers’ Compensation Law, an employer who has paid full wages to its employee during a period of disability may obtain full reimbursement of these payments out of a “schedule award” for a different though consequential injury. The question arises in a case in which the employee injured his back in the course of his employment and, some nine months later, suffered an injury to his hand when a recurrence of back pain attributable…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- MATTER OF LYNCH v. Bd. of Educ. of the City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1957
- Claim of Wilkosz v. Symington Gould Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1961
- Claim of Wilkosz v. Symington Gould Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1964
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- Claim of Briggs v. HamiltonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
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