Nickel v. Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

Peters, J.P

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 10, 2010, which denied claimant’s request to rescind a settlement agreement made pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 32.

Claimant was injured in a work-related accident in 1996 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. In 2001, claimant and the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier negotiated a settlement agreement pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 32. Under the agreement, the carrier agreed to pay claimant a lump sum payment of $92,950, with claimant’s understanding that an attorney’s fee of…