By Ben Seal | October 26, 2017
A coal miner injured while shoveling out of a massive spill presented sufficient evidence to establish the extent and duration of his disability and its causation, the Commonwealth Court has ruled in affirming a workers' compensation determination in his favor.
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By Zack Needles | October 19, 2017
The spouse of a deceased police officer was entitled to resolve a dispute with the city over survivor pension benefits through arbitration, rather than a local agency appeal, because those benefits were specifically provided for in the police union's collective bargaining agreement with the city, a unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled.
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By Ben Seal | October 12, 2017
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services cannot be compelled to disclose nursing home provider rates if it does not possess or control the financial records requested under the Right-to-Know Law, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Agency's failure to grant a hearing to the alleged perpetrator of child abuse to challenge the report, after the subject made a sufficiently clear request for hearing, violated due process and warranted the grant of an appeal nunc pro tunc. Order of the Department of Human Services, Bureau of Hearings and Appeals reversed, case remanded.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Workers' compensation board properly affirmed the WCJ's dismissal of claimant's reinstatement petition because claimant failed to establish a causal connection between her current condition and her recognized work-related injuries, failed to comply with the special rules relating to the admissibility of a doctor's report and failed to establish a worsening of her condition subsequent to the termination of her benefits. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Board properly suspended claimant's benefits because employer established that claimant's loss of earnings was related to his voluntary quitting after he received a reprimand rather than to any factor related to his work injury. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Where relation of treatment to work-related injury appeared to be obvious, employer had burden to demonstrate that treatment was unrelated to or not caused by the work injury to avoid liability for treatment expenses. Order of the WCAB reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Unemployment compensation board properly found that claimant did not meet her burden under the "follow the spouse" doctrine to show that circumstances beyond the control of the spouse caused the need to relocate when spouse accepted scholarship to study theology in Florida because spouse had been working in Pennsylvania, even if part time, and he had no offer of employment in Florida. Affirmed.
By Jason Grant | September 20, 2017
A state workers' compensation board correctly found that a permanently disabled ex-school worker should continue to receive benefits even after he was secretly videotaped helping to move a popcorn machine at a football game, an appeals court has ruled.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 19, 2017
The trial court erred in quashing two Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act (PUFA) charges against defendant since his possession of a certificate issued pursuant to the Lethal Weapons Training Act did not excuse him from the PUFA requirement of a license to carry. The court reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
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