Claim of Ubban v. County of Westchester

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 7, 1992, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained a causally related permanent total disability.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury to his back on or about March 1, 1982 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. The case was thereafter closed on or about December 14, 1983. It appears that claimant’s pain became progressively worse and that claimant stopped working entirely in late 1985. Thereafter, based upon the submission of certain medical reports, claimant’s case was reopened, and additional…