Parties Don't Need to Address Labor Market Attachment

A New York appellate court ruled that the parties to a workers’ compensation dispute did not need to develop the record on whether the worker had maintained an attachment to the labor market when there had not yet been a determination that she was permanently partially disabled. Case: Matter of Poulard v. Southside Hospital, No. 529197, 11/27/2019, published. Facts and procedural history: Dannie Poulard worked for Southside Hospital as a nurse attendant. She established a workers’ compensation claim for injuries to her left shoulder and neck stemming from a 2011 work-related...