Legal Opinion
Claim of Mealing v. Hills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 2, 1987PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 18, 1986, as amended by decision filed September 17, 1986.
The employer and its insurance carrier contend that the Workers’ Compensation Board erred in applying the amended version of Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) (s), which specifies that permanent partial vision loss is to be measured on the basis of uncorrected vision, to determine claimant’s award for a work-related eye injury sustained prior to the effective date of the amendment. We disagree and affirm the Board’s decision.
On August 8, 1983, an amendment to…
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