The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review a Commonwealth Court’s ruling that a Coca-Cola employee should not have had his workers’ compensation benefits suspended for the period of time he spent in pretrial incarceration.

The justices granted allocatur Jan. 28 in Sadler v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Philadelphia Coca-Cola), taking up Coca-Cola’s appeal of a precedential May 2019 opinion in which a three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court voted 2-1 to reverse an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board. The board had upheld a workers’ compensation judge’s decision that granted Philadelphia Coca-Cola’s petition to suspend claimant Carl Sadler’s workers’ compensation benefits for 525 days and denied Sadler’s petition to review Coca-Cola’s calculation of his average weekly wage.