Self Insurers Intervene to Overturn Award of 487 Weeks of PPD Benefits

The South Carolina Self-Insurers Association says it has filed an amicus brief in an appeal of Workers' Compensation Commission ruling in which a claimant was awarded $239,672.80 in permanent partial disability benefits. The association said on its website that in Adickes v. Philips Healthcare the commission's award amounts to 487 weeks of benefits, despite a state law that restricts PPD payments to 340 weeks. "We are dealing with an issue of application of the plain language of the statute, not one of statutory interpretation, and it is our position that the full commission ord...