Legal Opinion
Claim of Blackwelder v. Faith Heritage School
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 23, 2006PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRose, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 11, 2005, which ruled that the value of tuition remission should not be included in the calculation of claimant’s average weekly wage.
Claimant commenced employment as a maintenance and custodial worker at a private school in September 2002; five weeks later he sustained a compensable injury. Claimant was paid $345.20 for the weeks he worked and, as a full-time employee of the school, he received free tuition for his three children. During the administrative proceedings, the issue of whether the tuition remission, valued…
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