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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW 35 PROVIDES A SAFETY NET FOR WORKERS WHO HAVE REACHED THE LIMIT OF WEEKS OF INDEMNITY PAYMENTS PURSUANT TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW 15 (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined Workers’ Compensation Law 35 provides a safety net for workers who have reached the  limit of weeks of indemnity payments pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law 15:

As part of the comprehensive reforms of the Workers’ Compensation Law in 2007, the Legislature amended Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) (w) … . “The amendment, in a concession to insurance carriers, capped the number of weeks that a person is eligible to receive benefits for a non-schedule permanent partial disability” … . …

The 2007 legislative reforms also included the enactment of Workers’ Compensation Law § 35 … , which is “intended to create a possible safety net for claimants who sustain a permanent partial disability and have not returned to work after they have reached their limit on weeks of indemnity payments” … . Pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 35 (2), “[n]o provision of this article shall in any way be read to derogate or impair current or future claimants’ existing rights to apply at any time to obtain the status of total industrial disability under current case law.” Given the plain language of this statute that a claimant’s right to seek total industrial disability status at any time remains, notwithstanding other statutory provisions of article two of the Workers’ Compensation Law, as well as the clear legislative intent of Workers’ Compensation Law § 35 “to establish a safety net for permanent partial disability claimants who surpass their number of maximum benefit weeks” … . Matter of Minichiello v New York City Dept. of Homeless Servs., 2020 NY Slip Op 06433, First Dept 11-12-20

 

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