High Court Puts Limits on Duration of Extra Benefits in Schedule Losses

New York’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that an injured employee who received a schedule loss of use award and “additional compensation” was not entitled to continued benefits payments until his Social Security retirement kicked in. In Mancini v. Office of Children and Family Services, a majority of the Court of Appeals held that the plain language of Section 15(3)(v) of the state’s workers’ comp statute requires awards of additional compensation to be subject to the durational limitations set out under Section 15(3)(w) — those for workers with non-s...