Assembly Bill A6602

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the schedule of compensation in case of disability

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A6602 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4520
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, Work Comp L

2017-A6602 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the schedule of compensation in case of disability; provides that any difference in compensation rate paid during a period of temporary disability and the rate of payment after classification of permanent disability shall be paid by the employer or credited to the employer in weekly installments during the continuance of payments for such permanent partial disability.

2017-A6602 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6602
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the sched-
   ule of compensation in case of disability
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Paragraph w of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the workers'
 compensation law, as amended by chapter  6  of  the  laws  of  2007,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   w.  Other  cases.  In all other cases of permanent partial disability,
 the compensation shall  be  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  percent  of  the
 difference  between  the injured employee's average weekly wages and his
 or her wage-earning capacity thereafter in the same employment or other-
 wise.  Compensation under this paragraph shall  be  payable  during  the
 continuance  of such permanent partial disability, but subject to recon-
 sideration of the degree of such impairment by  the  board  on  its  own
 motion or upon application of any party in interest however, all compen-
 sation  payable  under  this paragraph shall not exceed (i) five hundred
 twenty-five weeks, BEGINNING AT THE DATE OF INJURY, in  cases  in  which
 the  loss  of wage-earning capacity is greater than ninety-five percent;
 (ii) five hundred weeks, BEGINNING AT THE DATE OF INJURY,  in  cases  in
 which  the  loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than ninety percent
 but not more than ninety-five percent; (iii) four  hundred  seventy-five
 weeks,  BEGINNING  AT  THE DATE OF INJURY, in cases in which the loss of
 wage-earning capacity is greater than eighty-five percent but  not  more
 than  ninety  percent;  (iv)  four hundred fifty weeks, BEGINNING AT THE
 DATE OF INJURY, in cases in which the loss of wage-earning  capacity  is
 greater  than  eighty percent but not more than eighty-five percent; (v)
 four hundred twenty-five weeks, BEGINNING AT  THE  DATE  OF  INJURY,  in
 cases  in which the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than seven-
 ty-five percent but not more than  eighty  percent;  (vi)  four  hundred
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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