Claim of Lewis v. New York Daily News

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed January 17, 1973, in which it was found that the carrier failed to raise the issue of notice at the first hearing at which all parties were present and at which claimant testified. Although claimant did not provide his employer with notice of his injury within the statutory period, the board had a right to conclude that employer and carrier be deemed to have waived such "notice under *608section 18 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law since at the hearing of May 1, 1972, which was the first hearing at which claimant testified, an…