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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD DEPARTED FROM ITS PRECEDENT WITHOUT AN EXPLANATION, MATTER REMANDED TO THE BOARD (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Rivera, remanding the matter to the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined the Court could not rule on the appeal because the Board did not place on the record its reasons for departing from its own precedent. Claimant retired after she was injured and the Board held that she did not have to demonstrate efforts to get work in order to obtain benefits:

… [T]he Board now maintains that it departed from its administrative precedent by applying a discretionary inference in favor of claimant as permitted by Matter of Zamora v New York Neurologic Assoc. (19 NY3d 186 [2012]), without first requiring claimant to present evidence of her efforts to obtain work or get retrained. All parties agree that pursuant to Zamora the Board may, but need not, infer from the fact that a claimant involuntarily retired due to claimant’s permanent partial disability that the claimant’s reduced post-accident earnings resulted from that disability … . All parties also agree that once initially so classified, a claimant entitled under Workers’ Compensation Law (“WCL”) § 15 (3) (w) to compensation for the disability-related loss of wage-earning capacity need not demonstrate ongoing efforts to work or retrain for work after classification under the 2017 amendment to that provision. Given the parties’ agreement on the applicable law, and the Board’s representation that it departed from its purported precedent without explanation, we reverse and remit so that the Board may clarify its rationale and issue a decision in accordance with Zamora, which should include an explanation if it chooses to depart from an evidentiary requirement imposed on similarly situated claimants in prior proceedings. Matter of O’Donnell v Erie County, 2020 NY Slip Op 02095, CtApp 3-26-20

 

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