Leo v. Maro Display, Inc.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which the employee contends that he is entitled to triple damages because his work-related injury occurred at a time when he was a minor. Both the trial commissioner and the appellate division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission rejected this contention, and so do we.

The facts are uncontradicted. The employee received serious job-related injuries to his left hand at 12:45 p.m. on August 3, 1977. He was born on August 3, 1959, at 3:56 p.m. Everyone agrées that the employee would not be entitled to triple damages if he were eighteen as of 12:45 p.m.…