Claim of Tallini v. Martino

— Appeal from decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 7, 1979 and January 26, 1981, which held that claimant is not entitled to compensation benefits during his period of confinement to a psychiatric ward for the criminally insane. On May 5, 1959, claimant sustained a compensable back injury and was awarded benefits upon the board’s finding that he sustained a permanent partial disability. After some time, claimant returned to Italy, his native country, and years later on May 3, 1976 was involved in a bizarre shooting incident in which two people were fatally injured. As…