This article addresses the complex and sometimes confusing interplay between Pennsylvania workers’ compensation benefits and Pennsylvania unemployment compensation benefits and, specifically, what effect a resignation from employment in a workers’ compensation claim context may have on a claimant’s possible future receipt of unemployment compensation benefits.
In Lee v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review , a 2011 Commonwealth Court case, a workers’ compensation claimant employed by the Williamsport Area School District as a full-time classroom assistant suffered a herniated disc while restraining a student in the course of her employment activities. The claimant, Nicole Lee, began receiving workers’ compensation benefits but was later released to light-duty work and eventually returned back to part-time light-duty work as an assistant secretary for the district, according to the opinion.
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