New York Workers' Compensation Law Section 222 - Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required.

222. Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The chair, the board or the chair's designee, pursuant to section two hundred twenty-one of this article, in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such investigation or inquiry or conduct such hearing in such manner as to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties.


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