The state Supreme Court has asked the Commonwealth Court to reconsider a 2011 decision denying workers’ compensation benefits to a state liquor store employee who had been robbed at gunpoint.
The court issued a per curiam order in February, granting the plaintiff’s appeal in Kochanowicz v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, vacating the intermediate court’s opinion, and remanding the case for further consideration. The order asked the Commonwealth Court to review the case in light of the high court’s 2013 holding in Payes v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, in which the court ruled that a police officer could receive workers’ compensation for alleged post-traumatic stress disorder after he accidentally struck and killed a woman with his patrol car.
