A New York appellate court upheld a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board to lower a health care employee’s lost wage-earning capacity rating, given her transferrable job skills and functional capabilities.
Case: Matter of Saintval v. AMN Healthcare, No. 525777, 10/11/2018, published.
Facts and procedural history: Dieula Saintval worked for AMN Healthcare. She slipped in a puddle of water and fell while working in an operating room in April 2012.
Saintval established a workers’ compensation claim and began receiving temporary partial disability benefits.
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