High Court Grants Later Disability Benefits to Retirees

The Connecticut Supreme Court issued two unanimous precedential rulings that grant injured workers who retire voluntarily but continue to suffer from injuries access to permanent disability benefits under workers' compensation despite having left the workforce. The state’s highest court on Tuesday reversed appellate court rulings in both Cochran v. Dept. of Transportation, which addresses the continued health complications of a Department of Transportation worker who suffered a spinal injury in 1994 while lifting a 300- to 400-pound tractor-trailer tire over a barrier on the interst...