A workers’ compensation recipient did not forfeit his entitlement to benefits when he was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to 10 years probation, an upstate appeals court determined.

The Appellate Division, Third Department, panel said in Matter of the Claim of Islam, 515787, that 2007 amendments to §10(4) of the state Workers’ Compensation Law expressly disqualified recipients from benefits if they were convicted of, and incarcerated for, a felony.