Claim of Messina v. Hudson News Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 29, 2010, which directed the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier to make a deposit into the aggregate trust fund pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 27 (2).

Claimant sustained a work-related injury in 2004, and was found to suffer from a marked permanent partial disability in 2009. As his injury predated a 2007 amendment to Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) (w), there is no “cap on the number of weeks for which [he] can receive that subdivision’s non-schedule permanent partial disability . . . benefits” (Matter of *1069…