An employer cannot stop paying workers' compensation benefits to a nursing mother because she refuses to take prescription medicine or undergo surgery to alleviate a work-related injury, a unanimous Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel ruled. Colleen Curran would not accept the treatment for fear it would harm the child she was breast-feeding. Her employer used that as grounds for an attempt to terminate or modify her benefits petition.
November 24, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
An employer cannot stop paying workers’ compensation benefits to a nursing mother because she refuses to take prescription medicine or undergo surgery to alleviate a work-related injury, a unanimous Commonwealth Court panel ruled recently.
The claimant in American Red Cross v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board would not accept the treatment for fear it would harm the child she was breast-feeding. Her employer used that as grounds for an attempt to terminate or modify her benefits petition.
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