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ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO SCHEDULE LOSS OF USE (SLU) AWARD FOR THE PRIOR (2003) INJURY, THE AMOUNT OF THE AWARD FOR THE CURRENT (2015) INJURY MUST BE REDUCED BY THE LOSS OF USE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRIOR INJURY (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined the schedule loss of use (SLU) award should have been apportioned between the effects of a prior (2003) injury for which claimant was not compensated and the current (2015) injury to the same body member. The prior injury would have been compensable but for the finding the injury was caused by an injury at work:

In August 2015, claimant sustained another injury to his right shoulder while at work, and his ensuing claim was established for injury to the right shoulder. Ultimately, a WCLJ found that claimant had a 50% SLU of the right arm that was causally related to the 2015 accident. The WCLJ [Workers’ Compensation Law Judge] rejected the carrier’s assertion that there should be apportionment between the 2015 claim and the 2003 noncompensable injury, stating that the carrier had successfully argued at the time of the 2003 claim that one of claimant’s consultants was not credible and that there was no SLU for the 2003 injury and that it would be contradictory to now reduce claimant’s award based on that consultant’s prior SLU opinion. …

It is standard practice to apportion an SLU award involving two compensable injuries to the same body member and thus hold each carrier responsible for only that portion of the overall loss of use attributable to the injury covered by them ). That same principle is applicable to an SLU case involving a prior, noncompensable injury when the prior injury was disabling “in a compensation sense” before the occurrence of the subsequent injury. Because an SLU award “is not given for an injury sustained, but[, rather,] for the residual permanent physical and functional impairments” to the subject body member … , the question is whether there is documented prior “loss of use, function or range of motion of the body member in question” … . In other words, “apportionment may be applicable in an SLU case if the medical evidence establishes that the claimant’s prior injury [to the same body member] — had it been compensable — would have resulted in an SLU finding” … . Matter of St. Aubin v Office of Children & Family Servs., 2020 NY Slip Op 03706, Third Dept 7-2-20

 

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