Board Should Have Ordered Benefits Paid in Landmark Case, Attorneys Say

A New York appellate court refuses to reconsider what insurers call an “astonishing” reversal of precedent, a ruling that moves a family one step closer to collecting the remaining comp benefits for a worker who died of natural causes. The New York Workers' Compensation Board also set its own precedent in Kanye Green v. Dutchess County Board of Cooperative Education Services by failing to direct that the benefits be paid once the decision is appealed, as required by law, claimants' attorneys in the state said. “This case is important for bot...