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Approval of an MRI Within Seven Years of Closure of Claimant’s Case Effectively Reopened the Case—Transfer to the Special Fund for Closed Cases Was Error

The Third Department determined the fact that an MRI had been approved demonstrated that the claimant’s case had not been closed for the requisite seven years. Liability therefore was not shifted to the Special Fund for closed cases:

Pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 25-a, the Special Fund becomes liable for claims that are reopened more than seven years from the date of the injury and three years after the last payment of compensation … . There is no dispute that this case was initially closed as of June 20, 2005. In its amended decision, the Board determined that the case was first reopened in April 2012 when the MRI was requested, but closed once that application was approved. Finding that the case was again reopened when surgery was requested on June 26, 2012, the Board determined that the requisite seven-year time period had passed, shifting liability to the Special Fund.

This sequence calls into question whether the case was “truly closed” when the MRI request was approved. We have previously recognized that a “decision authorizing [an] MRI [does] not constitute a true closing of the case as [the] claimant’s future treatment depended upon the results of the MRI and, thus, further action was contemplated although not planned at that time” … . The same holds true here. As such, we conclude that the Board erred in concluding that the case was closed when the MRI was authorized. Correspondingly, since the case was reopened when the MRI was requested in April 2012, within the statutory seven-year period, liability does not shift to the Special Fund. Matter of Bank v Village of Tuckahoe, 2015 NY Slip Op 04894, 3rd Dept 6-11-15

 

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