Claim of Cashel v. Brown, Lipe Chapin Co.

The Special Fund for Reopened Cases, under section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, has appealed from an award of the State Industrial Board in favor of claimant. On March 19,1925, while claimant was engaged in the regular course of his employment he sustained injuries which resulted in one hundred per cent loss of his left eye. The sole question involved is whether or not the claim is barred by reason of claimant’s failure to file a formal claim. On the day after the accident the employer filed a report of injury in which it admitted that claimant suffered an accident in the regular…