High Court Clarifies Workers' Entitlement to SLU Awards for Multiple Injuries

New York’s highest court ruled that a worker can receive a schedule loss of use award for different injuries to the same statutory member, and if the second injury has caused an increased loss of use, the worker is entitled to a commensurate SLU award. Cases: Matter of Johnson v. City of New York and Matter of Liuni v. Gander Mountain, Nos. 29 and 30, 04/21/2022, published. Facts: Thomas Johnson and Joseph D. Liuni both had successive work-related injuries to different subparts of the same body member enumerated in Workers' Compensation Law Section 15(3). Johnson suffere...