Stojanov v. Eastman Kodak Co.

Appeals from two decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 10, 2008, which ruled that claimant’s applications for review were untimely.

Claimant was involved in two work-related accidents in 1981 sustaining injuries to his back and right shoulder. The claims for both injuries were closed in 1982 with a finding being entered of “no medical evidence of causally related disability or permanency.” Twenty-six years later in 2008, the cases were reopened and liability was transferred to the Special Fund for Reopened Cases (see Workers’ Compensation Law § 25-a). By decisions dated May…