Worker at MMI Can No Longer Receive Temporary Disability Benefits

The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that an injured worker who reached maximum medical improvement could no longer receive temporary disability benefits, as a matter of law. Beulah Gardner worked for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. She injured her left wrist at work in April 2016. The department accepted the injury as compensable. In October 2019, the department sent a separation letter to Gardner indicating that she could not continue in her position because of the nature of her permanent restrictions. Later that month, Gardner saw Dr. Pavel Straznicky, who ...