Case Title: Matter of Dale Malone v Bob Bernhardt Paving

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State: new-york

Court: New York Appellate Court

Date: 2004-04-06T00:00:00Z

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Matter of Malone v Bernhardt Paving


2004 NY Slip Op 02512 [2 NY3d 756]


April 6, 2004


Court of Appeals


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.



As corrected through Wednesday, July 7, 2004



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In the Matter of Dale Malone, Claimant,vBob Bernhardt Paving et al., Appellants. Workers' Compensation Board, Respondent.Decided April 6, 2004



Matter of Malone v Bernhardt Paving, 1 AD3d 781, affirmed.



APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL


Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP, Binghamton (Jason M. Carlton of counsel), for appellants.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Patrick J. Walsh of counsel), for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs. The Appellate Division properly upheld the Workers' Compensation Board's imposition of a penalty under Workers' Compensation Law § 25 (3) (f) against the carrier for failure to pay the award within 10 days. The penalty award is consistent with the purpose of the statute "in favor of prompt payment of workers' compensation benefits to injured employees" (Matter of Keser v New York State Elmira Psychiatric Ctr., 92 NY2d 100, 105 [1998]). The carrier's mistake in addressing the payment to the wrong street name and number is sufficiently distinguishable from the carrier's one-letter spelling mistake in the street name in Krug's Glazing Servs. (WCB No. 8951 2610, 1998 WL 707503, 1998 NYWCLR [LRP] LEXIS 286 [Sept. 16, 1998]) to warrant a different result (see Matter of Charles A. Field Delivery [*2]Serv. [Roberts], 66 NY2d 516, 517-520 [1985]).
Chief Judge Kaye and Judges G.B. Smith, Ciparick, Rosenblatt, Graffeo, Read and R.S. Smith concur.
On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.4), order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.