Claim of Brown v. Verizon New York, Inc.

Appeals from six decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 7, 2002, June 3, 2002, June 14, 2002, June 25, 2002, July 2, 2002 and July 15, 2002, which ruled, inter alia, that the employer was not entitled to full reimbursement for certain benefits paid.

*839These six cases, while not among the 974 cases for which Staruch v New York Tel. Co. (277 AD2d 830 [2000], lv dismissed and denied 96 NY2d 852 [2001]) was designated the lead case, present once again the issue of whether an employer’s right to recover moneys paid pursuant to an employee benefit plan from a later workers’…