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· 8/21/1991

Albert E. DAVIDSON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant, Appellant

Citations

  • 942 F.2d 90
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 19484
  • 1991 WL 159092

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  • noting that under 424a total worker's compensation and social security benefits may not exceed 80% of worker's \predisability income\
  • a statutorily prescribed award for permanent injury \compensates for a conclusively presumed wage loss\ and is subject to offset
  • social security offset provision “enacted to prevent the duplication of disability benefits that had resulted in payments in excess of predisability earnings”
  • “The offset provision was enacted to prevent the duplication of disability ... payments in excess of predisability earnings, which was perceived by Congress to have ‘reduced the incentive of the worker to return to the job, and impeded the rehabilitative efforts of the state programs.’”

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Judges: Campbell, Bownes, Torres

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