Bishop v. Workers' Compensation Board

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Ingraham, J.), entered Decémber 31,1981 in Chenango County, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint and denied plaintiff’s cross motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff seeks a judgment declaring that the defendant Workers’ Compensation Board possesses the right, power and authority to approve payment of attorney’s fees directly by claimant to her attorney even though the board has made no compensation award upon which that fee could constitute a lien. Allegedly she requires medical care because of injuries…