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New York: Self-Imposed Limitation Cannot Support Reduced Earnings Award

August 27, 2019 (1 min read)

Where a New York claimant’s reduced earnings were due, not to his established back injury, but to economic conditions unrelated to the injury, the claimant was not entitled to a reduced earnings award, held a New York appellate court. The holding affirmed a divided panel of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that found the claimant’s reduced earnings was the result of a self-imposed limitation. He testified that he worked approximately five hours each week, yet neither his physician nor an independent medical examiner opined that no limitations had been placed on his ability to return to work.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

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See Matter of Marcy v. City of Albany Fire Dept., 2019 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6055 (Aug. 1, 2019)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 84.04.

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law

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