Allegheny County cannot recover nearly $15,000 in attorney fees it paid in a workers’ compensation case, even though the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board’s decision against the county was ultimately reversed, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
In a unanimous Jan. 18 opinion, the justices acknowledged that a lawyer for the employee, Harold Parker, should not have been awarded attorney fees in the first place. But Parker’s lawyer, David Landay, cannot be ordered to disgorge those fees, the ruling said.
