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THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD SHOULD NOT HAVE OFFSET THE SLU AWARD FOR CLAIMANT’S ARM INJURY BASED ON A PRIOR SLU AWARD FOR INJURY TO THE SAME ARM; THE TWO INJURIES WERE NOT RELATED (THIRD DEPT)

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined claimant was entitled to a schedule loss of use (SLU) award for injury to his arm, despite a prior SLU award for injury to the same arm. The injuries involved different pathologies:

​”Pursuant to Matter of Genduso [v New York City Dept. of Educ. (164 AD3d 1509 [3d Dept 2018])] and its progeny, the Board may offset an SLU award by previous SLU awards for the same body member, regardless of whether the prior injuries involved the same or separate parts of that member” … . However, the Court of Appeals has held that an offset of an SLU award by previous SLU awards for the same body member “is not required when the claimant demonstrates that a subsequent injury increased the loss of use of [the] body member beyond that resulting from the prior injury” (Matter of Johnson v City of New York, 38 NY3d at 444 …). Such demonstration may include medical evidence that a prior injury and the current injury to the same member are “separate pathologies that each individually caused a particular amount of loss of use of [the subject member]” … and that the current injury resulted in a greater degree of loss of use of the body member in question “beyond that . . . [of] the prior injury” … . * * *

… [C]laimant’s physician clearly stated that claimant had “received a scheduled loss of use of 27% for the right shoulder,” and, in his July 2021 report, claimant’s physician opined that the surgery he had performed for claimant’s 2015 shoulder injury was “unrelated” to the 2019 biceps injury. Claimant’s physician made it clear that the 33.33% SLU that he found claimant had sustained for the biceps injury was separate from, and in addition to, the prior shoulder injury. Thus, in accordance with the holding in Matter of Johnson, the SLU attributable to the prior shoulder injury should not have been deducted from the SLU attributable solely to the biceps injury, and we find that the Board’s determination is not supported by substantial evidence. Matter of Germano v Dynamic Appliances, Inc., 2024 NY Slip Op 05259, Third Dept 10-24-24

Practice Point: A claimant is eligible for more than one SLU award for injuries to the same body part if the injuries are not related and involve different pathologies.

 

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