Opinion
Argued October 9, 1968
Decided October 17, 1968
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department.
John E. Knauf for appellants.
James P. Lynch and John M. Cullen for Special Fund for Reopened Cases, respondent.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General ( Morris N. Lissauer, Ruth Kessler Toch and Daniel Polansky of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.
Order affirmed, with costs. Following the closing of the case on October 27, 1958, the employer continued to pay claimant his full wages, although he was unable to do the work he had performed prior to the accident. These payments, therefore, constituted advance payments of compensation, and were made within three years of the reopening of the case. Hence, the Fund for Reopened Cases is not liable under section 25-a of the Workmen's Compensation Law, and the board properly rescinded its original order and cast liability upon the employer and carrier ( Matter of Tremblay v. Warren County Westmount Sanatorium, 24 A.D.2d 658; Matter of Dorfer v. Summerhays Sons Corp., 286 App. Div. 1053, mot. for lv. to app. den. 309 N.Y. 1032).
Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING, BREITEL and JASEN.