Questione giuridica chiave
Whether advance payments made before the compensable period must be set off against lost earnings
Decisione estratta
Yes. Payments made to cover an earlier incapacity period must be imputed to the remaining lost-earnings debt for the later compensable period.
Motivazione estratta
The compensable lost-earnings damage was confined to 2004-08-01 through 2009-12-31. Amounts paid for incapacity before that period were therefore made for the same type of loss and had to be offset.