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 ...

Workers' compensation programs compensate employees injured on the job. During the workers' compensation process, a doctor assigns an injured employee a disability rating. This rating represents a ...

Once the claimant’s condition is at maximum medical improvement, the Maryland statute provides for the award of permanency benefits depending on the level of disability. The level of disability is ...

To say that this is a challenging semester in which to be teaching law is an understatement. Each of us is facing unprecedented obstacles; and in my little corner of the world I am presented with the ...

Workers’ Compensation Law § 15(3)(w) places a limitation – commonly referred to as “cap” – on the number of benefit weeks that compensation is payable to a claimant classified with a nonschedule ...