Question Of Fact Exists As To Whether Payments Were Disability Or Workers’ Comp

(July 6, 2023, 11:14 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of an employer in a dispute over whether an injured employee’s wages were properly reported as disability payments, which are taxable income, on W-2s filed with the Internal Revenue Service as opposed to workers’ compensation payments, which are nontaxable income, because a question of fact exists regarding what type of payments the employee received, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in reversing and remanding....