State of New York, Workers' Compensation Board v. A & T Healthcare, LLC

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Mc-Donough, J), entered April 14, 2010 in Albany County, which denied a motion by defendant Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc. for partial summary judgment.

In 1997, several employers in the healthcare field created the New York Health Care Facilities Workers’ Compensation Trust (hereinafter the Trust), a group self-insured trust designed to pay workers’ compensation benefits to the members’ employees. Defendant Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc. (hereinafter defendant) was a member of the Trust from 1999 to 2003. Beginning in 1999, the Trust began operating at a…