Claim of Liebla v. Gro Max, LLC

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 31, 2015, which ruled, among other things, that apportionment applied to claimant’s workers’ compensation award.

In 1993, while working in Connecticut for his then employer, claimant, a truck driver, sustained a compensable work-related injury to his back and ultimately underwent back surgery in 2003 and 2005. As a result of this injury, claimant did not work for approximately 2V2 years and was awarded a lump-sum payment in full satisfaction of his Connecticut workers’ compensation claim. In February 2006, claimant began…