Claim of De Pasquale v. General Electric Co.

Appeal by the claimant from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 24,1980, which denied claimant’s application to reopen the claim. Because of work-related back and neck injuries incurred in 1948, the Workers’ Compensation Board, in 1965, declared claimant permanently, totally disabled and his case was closed. In 1976, he submitted cardiac treatment bills to the compensation carrier for payment. Believing claimant’s heart condition to be unconnected to his 1948 accident, the carrier refused to honor them. At claimant’s request, the board reopened his case and restored it…