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ATTORNEY’S FEE PROPERLY REDUCED TO $450, FEE APPLICATION NOT PROPERLY FILLED OUT.

The Third Department determined the Worker’s Compensation Board correctly reduced attorney’s fees because the fee application form was not properly completed:

… [C]laimant’s counsel contends that the Board erred in reducing the WCLJ’s award of counsel fees based upon counsel’s failure to complete the OC-400.1 fee application form with respect to dates or time spent on the services rendered. Where counsel requests a fee in excess of $450, the Board’s rules and regulations provide that an attorney must file a written application for such fee using form OC-400.1 and that form must be “accurately completed” (12 NYCRR 300.17 [d] [1]). The form specifically instructs an attorney to, among other things, include the dates that the services were rendered and the time spent [FN3]. Such information, which is also required to be provided to a claimant, is relevant to the Board’s evaluation of the services rendered (see 12 NYCRR 300.17 [e], [f], [g]). “The Board may approve counsel fees ‘in an amount commensurate with the services rendered'” … , and its award will not be disturbed absent a showing that it is arbitrary and capricious or an abuse of discretion … . Here, counsel listed the services rendered, but inserted “35 hours” for the time spent on the services and did not indicate any dates upon which the services were performed or the amount of time spent on each service rendered. Under these circumstances, we do not find that the Board abused its discretion or acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in finding the OC-400.1 fee application form defective and reducing the counsel fees to the maximum $450 fee permitted in the absence of the accurate completion of such application form … . Matter of Curcio v Sherwood 370 Mgt. LLC, 2017 NY Slip Op 01047, 3rd Dept 2-9-17

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