In 'Matter of Green v. Dutchess County BOCES', the Third Department expanded workers' compensation carriers' liability to payments not just for posthumous SLUs, but also for permanent partial ...

"The legislative history strongly evinces the legislature's will to extinguish the authority of commissioners to award such benefits upon a claimant's having reached permanency status, [and] we concur ...

For the loss or loss of use of the following member or vision in an eye, the employee is entitled to the corresponding number of weeks of permanent partial disability. If the employee has partial loss ...

From 1999 to 2015, permanent disability claims for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) spiked during periods of economic recessions, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic may create a similar ...