Trautman v. Savin Copy Products

—Mercure, J.

Appeals from a decision and amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 10, 1991 and July 29, 1992, which directed that the award of workers’ compensation benefits be paid by the Special Fund for Reopened Cases.

The only issue that need be determined on these appeals is whether the finding of the Workers’ Compensation Board that the February 11, 1988 report of Mihai Dimancescu was not filed with the Workers’ Compensation Board within seven years of claimant’s January 8, 1982 accident (see, Workers’ Compensation Law § 25-a [1]) was unreasonable. In view of…