Claim of Perez v. Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 15, 2016, which ruled, among other things, that claimant sustained a 10% loss of wage-earning capacity.

Claimant injured his back at work in 2012 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. He returned to work in November 2013. In 2016, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge found that claimant has a permanent partial disability and a loss of wage-earning capacity of 10%. This determination was affirmed by the Workers’ Compensation Board on administrative review and claimant now appeals. *

Claimant contends that, because he…