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AMENDMENT OF THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT A CLAIMANT DEMONSTRATE ATTACHMENT TO THE LABOR MARKET TO BE ENTITLED TO PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY PAYMENTS DID NOT APPLY RETROACTIVELY TO CLAIMANT (SECOND DEPT).

The Third Department determined claimant was deemed to have involuntarily retired and no longer attached to the labor market in August 2015, well before the amendment of the Workers’ Compensation Law which removed the requirement that a claimant demonstrate attachment to the labor market to be entitled to permanent partial disability payments. The amendment did not apply to claimant retroactively:

… [T]he amendment states, in pertinent part, that in some cases of permanent partial disability, “[c]ompensation . . . shall be payable during the continuance of such permanent partial disability, without the necessity for the claimant who is entitled to benefits at the time of classification to demonstrate ongoing attachment to the labor market” (Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 [3] [w] … ). In sum, the amendment relieves some claimants who have been classified as permanently partially disabled of the burden of having to demonstrate ongoing attachment to the labor market in order to continue to receive wage replacement benefits … . * * *

… [C]laimant was classified as permanently partially disabled in July 2014, and proceedings were conducted before the WCLJ in August 2014 on the issues of claimant’s labor market attachment and voluntary withdrawal. The WLCJ concluded that claimant did not voluntarily retire and was not attached to the labor market, and the Board affirmed the WCLJ’s decision in August 2015. … [T]he Board’s August 2015 decision was issued well before the effective date of the amendment and, as such, this is not a situation in which retroactive application of the amendment is appropriate. Given that the Board declined to apply the amendment retroactively so as to relieve claimant of his obligation to demonstrate ongoing attachment to the labor market in order to continue to receive permanent partial disability benefits, we decline to disturb the Board’s decision. Matter of Pryer v Incorporated Vil. of Hempstead, 2019 NY Slip Op 06561, Third Dept 9-12-19

 

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