Claim of Calderon v. New York City Department of Corrections

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 18, 2015, which ruled, among other things, that claimant violated Workers’ Compensation Law § 114-a and disqualified him from receiving further workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant was awarded workers’ compensation benefits based upon injuries he suffered at work to both his hands and his right foot in October 2012. Thereafter, his treating physician opined that claimant had a schedule loss of use attributable to the 2012 injuries of 15% in each hand and 22.5% in his right foot. An independent medical examiner found…