Claim of Esad Desic v. Fairfield Properties

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 15, 2004, which rescinded a late penalty imposed on the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier.

Claimant was injured in the course of his employment in August 2001. Pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 32, claimant and his employer’s workers’ compensation carrier negotiated a proposed waiver agreement of settlement whereby claimant would receive $93,000, less counsel fees of $11,000, in complete satisfaction of any further obligations on the part of the carrier and employer. The parties filed the agreement with *680the…