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MEDICAL REPORT WAS SUFFICIENT TO REOPEN A CLOSED CLAIM WITHIN SEVEN YEARS, CLAIM SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE SPECIAL FUND.

The Third Department determined claimant’s prior claim had been truly closed in 2005 and 2009 medical report was sufficient to reopen the claim. Since the claim was reopened within seven years of the injury, the claim was not transferred to the Special Fund:

Workers’ Compensation Law § 25-a provides that “liability for a claim shifts to the Special Fund where a workers’ compensation case that was fully closed is reopened more than seven years after the underlying injury occurred and more than three years after the last payment of compensation” … . “A medical report may be deemed an application to reopen if the report gives the Board sufficient notice of a change in a claimant’s condition, as opposed to simply indicating continued disability and treatment” … . Such medical report “should not be given a strained interpretation, but should only be interpreted as a basis to reopen if that was clearly the doctor’s intention,” and the “mere mention of permanency in a medical report, absent an opinion regarding the degree of permanency, is insufficient to act as a request to reopen a case” … . “Such a decision of the Board will not be disturbed when supported by substantial evidence” … . …

… [T]he record reflects that claimant continued to receive authorized treatment for lower-back pain with his attending chiropractor, and, following a reexamination of claimant on August 11, 2009, claimant’s chiropractor reported for the first time that claimant exhibited a 25% permanent partial disability. Subsequent examinations revealed no material change in claimant’s condition, and the chiropractor continued to report that claimant had a 25% permanent partial disability. Inasmuch as the August 2009 medical report raised the issue of permanency and the degree of claimant’s disability, we find that substantial evidence supports the Board’s determination that the August 2009 medical report constituted an application to reopen and that, as such, this case was reopened within seven years of claimant’s May 2005 injury … . Matter of Williams v General Elec., 2017 NY Slip Op 00364, 3rd Dept 1-19-17

 

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