Legal Opinion

Self-Insurer's Ass'n v. State Industrial Commission

New York Court of Appeals

Decided May 28, 1918PublishedCited by 91 opinions

Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 11, 1918, answering in the affirmative a question certified by the state industrial commission under section 23 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The question certified is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.

On July 2, 1917, one of the members of the state industrial commission proposed to that body a resolution that every mutual compensation insurance company and every self-insurer should pay into the state fund, under section 27 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, as amended by chapter 705 of the Laws of 1917, the present value of death benefits under every award against such insurance carriers for deaths occurring between July 1, 1914, and July 1, 1917, inclusive.

The resolution was neither adopted nor rejected. All that the commission did was to recite that there was doubt about its power, and…

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