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THE BOARD ACCEPTED ONE EXPERT’S OPINION AND REJECTED THE OTHER BASED ON AN ISSUE THE EXPERTS WERE NEVER ASKED ABOUT; DECISION REVERSED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined the Board relied on an issue the experts were never asked about. One expert (Katz) found that claimant lost 3.3% of his hearing and the other (Alleva) found claimant had lost 45.3% of his hearing. The Board rejected Alleva’s opinion and adopted Katz’s concluding claimant had not explained how he could have done his job with a 50% hearing loss, an issue not discussed by the experts:

Although ‘[t]he Board’s authority in assessing the credibility of witnesses includes the power to selectively adopt or reject portions of a medical expert’s opinion, . . . as with any administrative determination, the Board’s decision in this regard must be supported by substantial evidence” … . There is no evidence in the record that Alleva was asked to explain how claimant was able to work with a 45.3% loss of hearing. Nor is there any evidence in the record that the issue of whether claimant’s hearing loss would have affected his job performance was ever raised by either party or their medical experts before the Workers’ Compensation Law Judge. In light of the dearth of evidence supporting the conclusions reached by the Board, we cannot say that its decision was supported by substantial evidence in the record. Matter of Mogilevsky v New York City Tr. Auth., 2022 NY Slip Op 01088, Third Dept 2-17-22

 

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