Opinion
July 9, 1945.
Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, LAZARUS, J.
Alvin L. Rabinowitz for appellant.
Walter L. Glenney for respondent.
MEMORANDUM
There is no defense to the action. Plaintiff furnished the notice required by subdivision (4) of section 13-a of the Workmen's Compensation Act, and the defendant in failing to file objections under section 13-g of the Act waived arbitration and admitted the amount claimed by the plaintiff to be the fair value of his services.
The orders should be reversed, with $10 costs, plaintiff's motion granted and defendant's motion denied.
I concur in the result. An insurance carrier has the right under section 13-g Work. Comp. of the Workmen's Compensation Law, to file objections to the bill of a physician and to demand arbitration. This the carrier (which is ultimately obligated to make the payment) may do as the agent of the insured employer. The employer, however, may repudiate the action taken by the carrier. The employer has done so in this case by an unequivocal statement that it approved the bill rendered by the physician and did not authorize the insurance carrier to object thereto.
HAMMER and EDER, JJ., concur in memorandum Per Curiam; SHIENTAG, J., concurs in result, in memorandum.
Orders reversed, etc.