Sacca v. Press

In Sacca v. Press, 70 AD2d 615 [1979] the plaintiff claimed that a psychiatric condition arose from, or was aggravated by, his involvement in a relatively minor vehicular accident which occurred during the course of employment. In reversing the order of the trial court and remanding the matter for a hearing, the Appellate Division, noting that because "the grant of a compromise order preserves for the plaintiff a right to future compensation from the carrier based upon the alleged permanence of plaintiff's psychiatric disturbance", full consideration of the legal consequences to the carrier of plaintiff's potential exercise of this right must be given when determining a motion to compel the giving of consent to settle nunc pro tunc (Sacca, 70 AD2d at 616).