… An 82-year-old former chief supervisor at a juvenile detention facility was still receiving worker’s compensation benefits. He had injured his shoulder breaking up a fight, eventually needing shoulder replacement surgery. He retired in his mid sixties because of this work injury. His former employer, the juvenile detention facility, filed a petition to suspend his benefits claiming that at age 82 he no longer intended to return to work. The Workers’ Compensation Judge granted the suspension. The Appeal Board reversed because a different judge had already decided that he was forced out of the labor market because of his injury. Further appeals are expected from the juvenile detention facility.
