Claim of Kowalewski v. Blaw-knox Co.

Appeal by the carrier and the Special Disability Fund from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board based on a finding that claimant is permanently and totally disabled as a result of a “silicosis condition superimposed on arteriosclerotic obliterans of the legs”. This claim was first filed in 1953. In 1954 based on a thorough medical examination the Referee found claimant had silicosis but that any disability therefrom was partial and the case was closed pending evidence of total disability (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 39). In 1959 the case was *725reopened. At a hearing held…