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.