Claim of Messina v. Hudson News Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 25, 2011, which, among other things, directed the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier to make a deposit into the aggregate trust fund pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 27 (2).

Claimant sustained a work-related permanent partial disability and, due to the timing of his injury and the award arising out of it, the Workers’ Compensation Board directed that the full amount of that award be deposited into the aggregate trust fund (hereinafter the ATF) pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 27. The employer’s…