The materials presented on the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board’s (ECAB) websites are not a substitute for legal advice or your own research.
The ECAB websites are repositories of information about adjudications at the Department of Labor. The sites include links to relevant rules and procedures, contacts, research libraries, decisions, and other information.
Although the websites endeavor to provide information that is timely, accurate, and complete, you must keep in mind that adjudicatory agencies cannot provide legal advice to litigants or their representatives. Thus, information contained in these webpages, or linked from these pages, cannot, under any circumstance, substitute for legal advice from an attorney or representative. Nor can it substitute for a party's own research into the statutory, regulatory, and case law authorities. Persons accessing this site must undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. ECAB does not recognize these webpages as final legal authority and they should not be cited or relied upon as such.
Refer to the U.S. Department of Labor's General website disclaimers.
The guidance by the Board on these matters may change without notice. Please note also that statutes and regulations may change.