Claim of Andersen v. New York Hospital

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from an award of compensation, which also discharged the Special Fund from liability under subdivision 8 of section 15 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law and found claimant permanently totally disabled. Claimant was employed as a building superintendent by the New York Hospital. He had two pre-existing physical ailments or physical conditions of which the employer was aware, a fractured right arm with stiffening and atrophy, and epilepsy. Subsequently it was discovered that he had a cardiac condition but there is no evidence in the record that…