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CLAIMANT IS ENTITLED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY RECEIVE AN AWARD FOR A SCHEDULE LOSS OF USE AND A PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY CLASSIFICATION (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Garry, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined claimant was entitled to simultaneously receive an award for a schedule loss of use (SLU) and a permanent partial disability classification:

… Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) permits a simultaneous SLU award and nonschedule classification for impairments that arise out of the same work-related accident where the claimant has returned to work at preinjury wages. * * *

… [W]hen a claimant who has sustained a permanent impairment to a member has returned to work at preinjury wages, it is mere speculation that an award will ever be made for nonschedule injuries arising from the same accident. Although the Board may be appropriately concerned about the possibility of double payment or recovery if and when a claimant experiences actual lost wages, this circumstance was provided for within Matter of Taher v Yiota Taxi, Inc. (162 AD3d at 1290 n 2). Additionally, the withholding of an SLU award in favor of the “virtual banking” of nonschedule cap weeks adds unnecessary complexity in the event that a claimant suffers a death that is unrelated to the established sites of injury … .  We further note that the Board’s position strongly incentivizes injured claimants with schedule and nonschedule permanent impairments arising from the same work-related accident who are capable of returning to work at preinjury wages not to do so in order to collect a nonschedule award. Matter of Arias v City of New York, 2020 NY Slip Op 01429, Third Dept 2-27-20

 

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