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 amendment if the claimant involuntarily withdrew from the labor market (i.e. – retired due to disability), <em>See </em><u>O’Donnell v. Erie County</u>, 162 AD3d 1280 (3<sup>rd</sup> Dept. 2018), but does not apply retroactively to relieve a claimant who was found to be unattached to the labor market from having to demonstrate attachment to the labor market to be entitled to benefits.

<u>Scott v. Visiting Nurses Home Care, </u><a href="https://thelomad.com/getmad.today/wp-contentdecisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2019/527808.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://thelomad.com/getmad.today/wp-contentdecisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2019/527808.pdf</a>.