The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth Court misconstrued Section 440 of the Workers’ Compensation Act in precluding an award of attorney’s fees to a claimant when an employer
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the Commonwealth Court’s order that held that a pharmacy cannot challenge a utilization review determination that medications prescribed by a treating healthcare provider, but dispensed
In a rare unanimous opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed the “traveling employee doctrine” (a/k/a the continuous coverage rule or the commercial traveler rule). The traveling employee doctrine creates a
A Workers’ Compensation Judge was placed in the unusual position of having to make a factual determination as to whether a corrections officer raped another corrections officer in the prison’s break
The Department of Labor changed the codes associated with physical therapy evaluations under the Commonwealth’s Worker’s Compensation Program. Because a schedule sets the payments to service providers like physical therapists,
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court dealt with an issue of first impression: “Whether Employer, which had filed a notice of temporary compensation payable paying indemnity benefits, was at the time it
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court revisited Protz v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Derry Area School District), 124 A.3d 406 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2015) (“Protz I“), aff’d, 161 A.3d 827 (Pa. 2017) (“Protz
An en banc panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court reaffirmed the holding that “the ruling in Protz II was not intended to be given a fully retroactive effect without regard
A technician was injured while repairing an MRI machine at the DuPont Hospital. He worked for a third-party contractor who maintained the machines for the hospital. His employer’s workers’ compensation
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reconciled competing interpretations of the Workers’ Compensation Act as it relates to the timeliness of claims for firefighters suffering from certain work-related cancers. Section 301(c)(2) of
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