Worker's Dismissal No Grounds for Reduced PD Award

An employer who accommodated a disabled worker's restrictions but later fired him when it discovered he had made a false statement on an application form he had filled out for a temporary-employment firm must still pay the worker's full permanent partial disability award, a Kansas appellate court ruled.The Court of Appeals upheld a decision by the Workers' Compensation Board, finding that a 1999 state Supreme Court decision, Ramirez v. Excel Corp., did not apply and that the employer could not take advantage of a statute that allows reduced awards for workers who return to employme...