The Commonwealth Court has denied the Philadelphia School District’s efforts to cancel the disability benefits of a teacher who claimed to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder after being punched in the belly by a student while she was eight months pregnant.

Ruling Tuesday in The School District of Philadelphia v. Smith, a split three-judge Commonwealth Court panel rejected arguments from the school district that the workers’ compensation judge and appeal board had applied the wrong standard in granting disability benefits to the claimant, Shahyra Smith.

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