by Melissa Day | May 31, 2019 | I'm MAD, MAD News, NYS Workers Compensation
In Stone v. Saulsbury/Federal Signal, the carrier argued that upon the claimant’s release from prison following conviction of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine that the claimant violated WCL §114 – a by failing to report his illegal work activities. The judge...
by Melissa Day | May 31, 2019 | I'm MAD, MAD News, NYS Workers Compensation
Amendments to law in 2017, which relieved a PPD claimant from demonstrating LMA after classification are retroactive if the employee is found attached at the time permanency is established, applies retroactively to a claimant classified with a PPD prior to the...
by Melissa Day | May 28, 2019 | MAD News, NYS Workers Compensation
It must have been 12th grade where I first became acquainted with incontinence. And no, it was through studying Dante’s Inferno and not some kind of bathroom emergency; back in the day, incontinence used to refer to the inability to control one’s self. A lack of...
by Melissa Day | May 21, 2019 | MAD News, NYS Workers Compensation
I made the mistake of seeing Avengers Endgame twice in a week before doing a major memo involving an LWEC determination (spoiler alert) and had a crazy idea to first map and then analyze the decisional framework that is LWEC. The entire point of stare decisis is so...