Usually, a claimant from a fairly large employer that provided a pension or retirement plan would be injured at work. Medical treatment would begin and at some point the claimant, a treating doctor, or both, would determine that the claimant’s former work duties were unmanageable given the work injury and the claimant would “retire.” A savvy claimant’s counsel would then step into the case and raise “involuntary withdrawal” and a claimant would, in short order, appear and testify that their doctor recommended retirement, or they simply couldn’t return to their former employment due to a work injury. Even where a claimant took an incentive-based retirement, or a regular service-based retirement, such statements were usually sufficient to satisfy the Bury standard of proof; and the Law Judge would then turn to the carrier or self-insured employer and ask them to produce proof that the claimant’s ongoing lost wages were solely due to something other than the claimant’s work injury.