Claim of Burke v. New York Telephone Co.

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 19, 1979. The employer contends that the board’s award to claimant of a 90% schedule loss of use of the left arm is not supported by substantial evidence. However, the record contains a C-71 report of a board medical examiner, dated January 23, 1974, which states that claimant has a permanent partial disability equal to a schedule loss of 90% of the left arm, and while there is dispute as to the degree of the disability, most of the medical experts who examined claimant during the 10-year period that this case has…