Appellate Division affirms workers’ compensation carrier liability determination in case involving professional employer organization and complex employment relationships in construction.
Appellate Division addresses whether Workers’ Compensation Board properly denied review based on procedural omissions in RB-89 form, examining interplay between regulatory requirements and statutory authority to excuse deficiencies.
Appellate Division affirms workers’ compensation finding that employer was responsible for asbestos handler’s occupational hearing loss under last injurious exposure rule after fifty-year career.
Appellate Division affirms workers’ compensation death benefits for physical therapist assistant who contracted COVID-19 while working with nursing home patients and died in May 2020.
Appellate Division affirms authorization of diagnostic hearing tests for established occupational hearing loss claim, finding Special Funds’ denial unsupported by substantial evidence.