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THE CARRIER’S APPLICATION FOR APPEAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED FOR FAILURE TO INCLUDE THE DATE WHEN THE OBJECTION WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE APPEAL WAS MADE; THERE WAS ONLY ONE HEARING AND THE REGULATION IN EFFECT AT THE TIME ONLY ASKED “WHEN” THE OBJECTION WAS MADE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined the appeal should not have been dismissed for failure to include the date when the objection upon which the appeal is based was made. Apparently there was only one hearing and the regulation in effect at the time of  the appeal application did not specifically require the date of the objection (only “when” the objection was made):

The Board found that the carrier’s response to question number 15 was not complete because it failed to specify “the date of the hearing” at which the carrier interposed its objection or exception to the ruling. “Although the Board has consistently found that listing the hearing date at which the objection or exception was made constitutes a complete response to [the temporal requirement of] question number 15” … , the regulation in effect at the time that the carrier submitted its application for review in June 2018 only required the applicant to state, as pertinent here, “when” the objection or exception was interposed; it did not then require that a date be specified … .

In reviewing the Board’s decision, we are guided by the fundamental principle of administrative law that “judicial review of an agency’s determination is limited to . . . the actual grounds that were relied upon by the agency in reaching its determination” … . Given that the carrier’s response to question number 15 provided temporal information, and in the absence of any finding by the Board that there were multiple hearings, we find that the Board’s denial of the carrier’s application for Board review on the ground it was incomplete — solely because it did not list a date of the hearing — was an abuse of discretion … . Matter of Mone v Deer Park Sand & Gravel Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op 02228, Third Dept 4-9-20

 

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