In addition to their potential to impact ongoing cases, appellate court decisions can provide us with insight into how the law has been interpreted and applied which, in turn, can inform future legal strategies and arguments.

Today’s Workers’ Compensation Appellate Roundup is a compendium of the Q2 2025 appellate decisions we found most interesting, along with the perspective of our highly experienced appellate attorneys. We hope you will find it a helpful and practical resource.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The practice of issuing subpoenas for deadlines where the doctor’s unavailability is already known is called into question (Matter of Pressimone v. New York City Housing Authority, May 1)
• A decision on benefits passing posthumously to the decedent’s son faces scrutiny when the state of the law at the time of the initial decision changes on appeal (Matter of Coyle v. W & W Steel Erectors LLC, May 8)
• When an intoxicated employee suffers a worksite accident, the carrier must show his injuries were caused solely by his intoxication (Matter of Ramales v. Frank & Nino’s Pizza Corp., May 29)

READ THE FULL ISSUE HERE.