Member of Failed Trust Must Pay Default Judgment to Board for Claim Paid by SDF

A New York appellate court ruled that a member of a failed self-insurance trust could not get out of paying a default judgment to the state Workers' Compensation Board for the cost of a claim by one of its employees, even though the Special Disability Fund had already reimbursed the board for it. Case: New York State Workers' Compensation Board v. Bast Hatfield, No. 517220, 11/20/2014, published. Facts: Bast Hatfield had been an employer member of Elite Contractors Trust of New York, one of the many self-insurance trusts to fail in the mid-2000s. The state Workers’ Compen...