Recent Developments in Workers’ Compensation
AN ARM AND A LEG: CALCULATING PROTRACTED HEALING WHEN A SINGLE CLAIM INVOLVES MULTIPLE EXTREMITIES
PRACTICE TIP: When negotiating a schedule loss of use award involving multiple extremities, first determine whether periods of temporary total disability can be assigned to individual extremities in order to avoid additional weeks of indemnity benefits due to protracted healing. In the case of Department of Correction, WCB G127 [...]