Employer Gets 2nd Chance to Prove Entitlement to Reimbursement for Death Benefit Payments

A New York appellate court ordered the State Workers' Compensation Board to re-evaluate whether an employer might be eligible for reibursement from the Special Disability Fund for its payment of death benefits to the widow of a worker who had died from lung cancer. Case: Beck v. Consolidated Edison Co., No. 517808, 05/28/2015, published. Facts: Edward Beck established a workers' compensation claim in 1997 for his asbestos-related pleural disease and chronic irritative bronchitis. After he died in 2005, his widow filed a claim for death benefits. Beck's former empl...