The Commonwealth Court has reversed and remanded a decision to reduce an injured employee’s compensation status to “partially disabled,” finding a workers’ compensation judge erred in rejecting a physician’s updated impairment rating that indicated total disability.

API Roofers Advantage Program, a roofing company in Pennsylvania, filed a petition to modify the compensation status of a former employee, who sustained injuries on the job in 1999, according to court documents. After years of litigation, the Workers Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirmed a ruling by the WCJ to grant the petition to API.