Employer's Delay in Requesting Entitlement to Reimbursement Was Fatal to Request

A municipal employer lost its ability to request a reimbursement for the wages it had continued to pay an employee during the times he was out of work because of an injury by waiting until after the worker received an award of temporary total disability benefits covering these same time periods. Case: O'Brien v. Albany County Sheriff's Department, No. 517840, 03/05/2015, published. Facts: Frank O'Brien, a deputy with the Albany County Sheriff's Department, suffered several work-related injuries to his shoulders. During the time that he missed work as a result of his...