229 A.D. 46 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1930
It is claimed that the State Industrial Board was without power to permit claimant to file his claim for compensation after the expiration of one year from the date of his accident.. The claimant was injured on February 14, 1928. At that time section 28 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (as amd. by Laws of 1925, chap. 658) provided that the right to claim compensation should be barred unless within one year after the accident a claim for compensation was filed with the Commissioner. This section was amended by chapter 754 of the Laws of 1928, effective July 1, 1928, by adding this provision: “ The Board may, however, by unanimous vote of the members qualified to act, permit the filing of a claim for compensation after the expiration of one year from the date of accident, but not exceeding two years after the date of such accident, when it shall find that such filing shall be in the interest of justice; and may order a hearing and make such award or decision on such claim as though the claim for compensation had been filed within the time prescribed in this section.” The claimant did not file his claim until March 6, 1929. The objection to the failure to file the claim within one year'after the accident was raised by the carrier at the first hearing. The Board extended the time to March 9, 1929, in the interest of justice.
The award should be affirmed.
Davis, Whitmyer, Hill and Hasbrouck, JJ., concur.
Award affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board.