New York state officials forced a truck driver for U.S. Concrete to turn back $93,155 in workers’ compensation benefits from October 2017 through September 2020 for failing to disclose that he self-published four fictional books after his on-the-job injury.

But an Albany appeals court declined to dig deeper into the driver’s pockets on Thursday, rejecting his employer’s request for a discretionary penalty to rescind the worker’s partial disability benefit of $802 per week from September 2020 onward.

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