Opinion
Decided and Entered: June 21, 2001.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board, filed November 12, 1998, which determined, inter alia, that the workers' compensation carrier was entitled to complete cross-examination of claimant.
Yvette Morales, New York City, appellant in person.
Stewart, Greenblatt, Manning Baez (Anthony E. Pizza of counsel), Syosset, for Metropolitan Life and another, respondents.
Before: Mercure, J.P., Peters, Spain, Rose and Lahtinen, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Claimant brought a claim for benefits for injuries allegedly sustained from a work-related incident in August 1993. After a Workers' Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) determined that claimant established a prima facie claim for several medical conditions, he continued the case and scheduled medical testimony. At subsequent hearings, the WCLJ did not allow the employer's workers' compensation carrier to complete cross-examination of claimant and the carrier filed exceptions with the Board. Prior to a ruling on these exceptions, the WCLJ took testimony of medical experts. The Board thereafter determined, inter alia, that the carrier was entitled to complete cross-examination of claimant. Claimant now appeals. Inasmuch as the Board's decision was interlocutory and did not involve a threshold legal issue, the decision is not appealable and this appeal must be dismissed (see, Matter of Supinski v. Bankers Trust Co., 235 A.D.2d 844; Matter of Green v. Brand Mid-Atl., 198 A.D.2d 633).
Peters, Spain, Rose and Lahtinen, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs.