VT Sup Crt Case Challenges Voc Rehab Benefit

The Vermont Press Bureau reports that an Essex man is asking the Vermont Supreme Court to overrule a Department of Labor and Industry decision that the employer does not need to pay the man's household expenses during vocational rehabilitation. Experts in the state say that if successful, the challenge would rewrite the state's workers' compensation laws and make the state's costs increase significantly. Gary Gintof, was a machinist at Husky Injection Molding in Milton when his continuous trauma back injury was accepted as compensable. He was making about $50,000-a-year, but after surgery he c...