Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Frank Kinkela, Respondent, against Thomas Crimmins Contracting Company and Utica Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1941-11-19
Citations: 263 A.D. 770
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Frank Kinkela, Respondent, against Thomas Crimmins Contracting Company and Utica Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 263
Pages: 770–770

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Frank Kinkela, Respondent, against Thomas Crimmins Contracting Company and Utica Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.

Opinion:
Appeal from a decision which rescinds an earlier one commuting an award of ninety-five per cent loss of use of left leg and eighty-five weeks' protracted temporary total disability. Commutation was made under section 17 of the Workmen's Compensation Law, upon the application of the carrier upon a finding that claimant who was an alien was about to become a non-resident. The present decision, from which the appeal is before us, rescinds upon the theory that claimant did not intend to become a non-resident, but only to go to Italy for a brief visit. Decision and award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Crapser, Heffernan, Sehenck and Foster, JJ.