Claim of Pendock v. Matrix Communications Group

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 11, 2016, which ruled, among other things, that payments by the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier for its share of litigation costs during an offset period did not reduce the carrier’s credit for claimant’s net recovery in a third-party action.

Claimant was awarded workers’ compensation benefits for injuries to his low back sustained on May 26, 2006 and other consequential disorders from a work-related accident, and he was later determined to have moderate to marked permanent partial disability. The employer’s…