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Detention by Immigration Officials Did Not Disqualify Claimant from Receiving Workers’ Compensation Benefits

The Third Department determined detention by immigration officials did not disqualify claimant from receiving Workers’ Compensation benefits.  Claimant had been convicted of a felony sex offense, but was sentenced to probation, not incarceration:

We cannot agree with the employer’s argument that claimant’s detention by immigration officials amounts to incarceration “upon conviction of a felony,” thereby rendering him ineligible to receive benefits pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 10 (4). That statutory language was enacted in 2007 to codify existing case law (see L 2007, ch 6, § 37; Governor’s Program Bill Memo, Bill Jacket, L 2007, ch 6…). In our view, giving plain meaning to each of the words used, the statute reflects an intent that benefits should not be paid if a sentence of incarceration is imposed as punishment for a felony conviction. While claimant was convicted of a felony, his punishment did not include incarceration. Rather, he was sentenced to 10 years of probation. His confinement for immigration purposes, on the other hand, was civil and nonpunitive in nature, and its purpose was to determine whether he should be deported (see 8 USC § 1226…). Accordingly, we are unpersuaded that claimant was “incarcerated upon conviction of a felony” as that phrase is used in the statute. Matter of Islam v BD Constr & Bldg, 2014 NY Slip Op 02474, 3rd Dept 4-10-14

 

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