Claim of Van Horn v. County of Cayuga

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 6, 2006, which, inter aha, directed claimant’s schedule loss of use award to be paid in a lump sum.

Claimant sustained work-related injuries to his left arm and left leg during the course of his employment as a highway superintendent with the County of Cayuga. Following a claim for workers’ compensation benefits, the parties entered into a stipulation providing for, among other things, an award of benefits to claimant for a 47.5% schedule loss of use of the left arm and for a 15.8% schedule loss of use of the left leg.…