A New York appellate court held that where a physician’s narrative report attached to a Board-adopted C-4.3 form (Doctor’s Report of Maximum Medical Improvement/Permanent Impairment) indicated the injured worker had sustained a 35 percent schedule loss of use ...
A New York appellate court reversed a decision by the state's Workers' Compensation Board that held an injured worker was not entitled to a scheduled loss of use (SLU) award for a severe tear in his hamstring muscle following a work-related accident. The...
Where a claimant received a schedule loss of use (SLU) award of 10 percent to the left leg related to a 2015 left hip injury, and the claimant's orthopedist opined that he had sustained a 17.5 percent SLU of the left leg, following a subsequent work-related...
A New York appellate court held it was error for the Board to find that an injured worker was not entitled to a schedule loss of use (SLU) award for injuries to her ankle, hand and finger, where she had returned to work at her preinjury wages and, therefore, was...
Stressing that schedule loss of use (“SLU”) awards under N.Y. Workers’ Comp. Law § 15(3) may be awarded only for a statutorily-enumerated member — e.g. , an arm or leg — and not for subordinate body parts, such as a knee or hip, a claimant who sustained a 2006...