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CASE NO. 4662 CRB-8-03-4
COMPENSATION REVIEW BOARD
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION
MARCH 31, 2004
ALBERT J. SMITH
CLAIMANT
v.
HARROW INDUSTRIES, INC.
EMPLOYER
APPEARANCES:
This appeal concerned a fee dispute between an attorney and law firm who represented the claimant in this matter. Interested Party, Appellant, Watstein & Watstein, P.C., was represented by Max Brunswick, Esq., 12 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
Interested Party, Appellee, Daniel B. Scott, Esq. was represented by David S. Rintoul, Esq., Brown, Paindiris & Scott, 2252 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT 06033.
This Petition for Review from the March 26, 2003, Finding and Award of the Commissioner acting for the Sixth District was heard December 19, 2003, before a Compensation Review Board panel consisting of the Commission Chairman John A. Mastropietro and Commissioners Howard H. Belkin and Charles F. Senich.
JOHN A. MASTROPIETRO, CHAIRMAN. An interested party, Watstein & Watstein, P.C., has appealed from the March 26, 2003, Finding and Award of the Commissioner acting for the Sixth District. We affirm the decision of the trial commissioner.
The pertinent facts are as follows. Attorney Daniel Scott was an associate of the law firm Watstein & Watstein, P.C. through May 9, 2002. When Attorney Scott left the firm of Watstein & Watstein, P.C., several clients chose to remain with Attorney Scott as opposed to remaining with Watstein & Watstein, P.C. This dispute arose out of the distribution of legal fees between Attorney Scott and Watstein & Watstein, P.C. The trial commissioner found that he had jurisdiction to resolve fee disputes between the attorneys in this case and set forth the matter for a formal hearing in order to determine the fee allocation. Watstein & Watstein, P.C. have appealed this decision. It argues the trial commissioner does not have jurisdiction to make the determination of fee division in this case.
The issue raised in this appeal is identical to the issue raised in Smith v. SRS Communications Corp., 4661 CRB-8-03-4 (March 31, 2004). We affirm the trial commissioner here for the same reasons set forth in that case.
Therefore, we affirm the March 26, 2003, Finding and Award of the Commissioner acting for the Sixth District.
Commissioners Howard H. Belkin and Charles F. Senich concur.
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