Claim of Mazza v. Frontier Bronze Corp.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The last payment of compensation in this claim arising from silicosis was made on April 21, 1949, under the limitations of Workmen’s Compensation Law (former art. 4-A). Within three years after that date an amendment to the statute became effective (June 1, 1951) by the addition of paragraph (ee) of subdivision 8 of section 15 (L. 1947, ch. 431, as amd. by L. 1951, ch. 598), which enlarged the benefits available from disability arising from silicosis and charged them against a newly created special fund. Shortly after this…