N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 123: Jurisdiction of board to be continuing

§ 123. Jurisdiction of board to be continuing. The power and

jurisdiction of the board over each case shall be continuing, and it

may, from time to time, make such modification or change with respect to

former findings, awards, decisions or orders relating thereto, as in its

opinion may be just, except that, where the employer has secured the

payment of compensation in accordance with the provisions of section

fifty of this chapter, no claim for compensation or for death benefits

that has been disallowed after a trial on the merits, or that has been

otherwise disposed of without an award after the parties in interest

have been given due notice of hearing or hearings and opportunity to be

heard and for which no determination was made on the merits, shall be

reopened after a lapse of seven years from the date of the accident or

death. Nor shall any award of compensation or death benefits be made

against the special fund provided in section twenty-five-a of this

chapter or against an employer or an insurance carrier where application

therefor is made after a lapse of eighteen years from the date of the

injury or death and also a lapse of eight years from the date of the

last payment of compensation.