Benefit Didn't Need to Be Available to Worker at Time of Injury for Worker to Get Award of It

The fact that nurse case management services were not an available workers' compensation benefit on the date of a worker's accident four decades ago did not preclude an administrative law judge from issuing him an award of such service when the evidence demonstrated the worker's need for this type of assistance. Case: Ward v. Pre-Engineer Systems, No. A14A0388, 07/15/2014, published. Facts: John Ward suffered a traumatic brain injury when he fell approximately 40 feet while working on a construction site in 1973. Since then, he has had an ongoing cognitive impairment. His e...