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THE EMPLOYER’S WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CARRIER WAS ENTITLED, PURSUANT TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW SECTION 15(3)(W), TO TAKE CREDIT TOWARD AWARDS OF TEMPORARY DISABILITY (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Garry, determined the Workers’ Compensation Board properly held that the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier was entitled, pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law section 15 (3)(w), to take credit toward awards of temporary disability. The opinion is too detailed to fairly summarize here.:

On December 19, 2017, claimant was involved in a work-related accident, and his subsequent claim for workers’ compensation benefits was established for injuries to his back, thoracic spine and both shoulders. Awards were made at various rates for periods of temporary disability and lost time beginning on December 20, 2017. In April 2021, claimant’s treating pain management specialist opined that claimant had reached maximum medical improvement (hereinafter MMI) with respect to his lumbar spine, and, in November 2021, the carrier’s consultant in physical medicine and rehabilitation, who conducted an independent medical examination of claimant, found that MMI in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation had been established. In a June 2022 decision, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) directed the parties to produce medical evidence of permanency. Following subsequent examinations for permanency, as well as deposition testimony from several of the physicians who examined claimant for permanency and testimony from claimant, the WCLJ, in a November 2022 decision, classified claimant as having a permanent partial disability with a loss of wage-earning capacity of 65%, entitling him to 375 weeks of compensation at the specified rate. The WCLJ also found that, pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 15 (3) (w), the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier was entitled to a credit against the number of statutory cap weeks based upon its payment of 78.8 weeks of awards to claimant for periods of temporary partial disability after June 16, 2020 — the 130th week following the accident of record. Matter of Quoma v Bob’s Discount Furniture, 2025 NY Slip Op 03610, Third Dept 6-12-25

 

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