High Court Rejects City's Argument to Recover $106,000 in Overpayments to Firefighter

New York’s highest court rejected a city’s efforts to claw back $106,000 in overpayments to an injured firefighter. The New York Court of Appeals held that neither Workers’ Compensation Law Section 25(4)(a) nor Workers’ Compensation Law Section 30(2) allow reimbursement from workers’ compensation awards for payments made under General Municipal Law Section 207-a(2). The provision that prevents firefighters from double recovery is General Municipal Law Section 207-a(4-a), but the court said whether that section provides a way for the city to collect on the overpa...