Claim of Ryciak v. Eastern Precision Resistor

Chief Judge Desmond.

The'law question is this : may the Workmen’s Compensation Board fix as the “date of disablement ’ ’ for a sufferer from an occupational disease the date when he first received medical treatment and thus impose liability on the carrier for the cost of medical treatment after that date even when there is no loss of earnings, or must the ‘ ‘ date of disablement ” for such purposes be deferred until the workman actually loses time from work? The referee and the board held in favor of claimant but the Appellate Division, reversed so much of the board’s order as directed payment…