Francis Wickersham on Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB)

Court Affirms Benefits for Aggravation of Preexisting Knee Condition Despite Employer’s Challenge

Lebanon Transit v. Philip Schaeffer (WCAB), No. 141 C.D. 2024, April 7, 2025, (previously not reported and reported by Order dated July 10, 2025) - The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a decision awarding benefits...more

8/8/2025 / Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) , Appeals , Appellate Courts , Causation , Expert Witness , Pennsylvania , Statutory Interpretation , Workers Compensation Awards , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB)

Where a Claimant Seeks to Add a Distinct, Consequential Injury to Notice of Compensation Payable and to Reinstate Indemnity...

Matthew Grow v. PECO Energy Company (WCAB); No. 63 C.D. 2024; filed January 8, 2025 - The claimant sustained a work injury to his neck in 2013. After he returned to work in January 2014, his benefits were suspended. Later, in...more

2/28/2025 / Compensation & Benefits , Disability , Employees , Employment Litigation , Indemnity , Reinstatement , State Labor Laws , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

Claimant’s Receipt of Administrative Time While Out Due to COVID-19 is Not Payment in Lieu of Workers’ Compensation Benefits

Jaime Brown v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB); No: 465 C.D. 2024; filed January 17, 2025 - In November 2020, the claimant, a police officer, was out of work for a physical injury. He returned to restricted-duty work on November...more

2/28/2025 / Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Employee Benefits , Wage and Hour , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB)

Under Section 410 of the Act, the Claimant’s Widow Was Not Barred From Receiving a Workers’ Compensation Judge’s Award of Specific...

Elmer Riehl v. Beiler Brothers, LLC (WCAB); No. 1563 C.D. 2023; Filed November 18, 2024; Judge Fizzano Cannon - On October 11, 2011, the claimant sustained a work injury in the nature of incomplete tetraplegia (paralysis of...more

1/24/2025 / Disabilities , Employee Benefits , Employment Litigation , Temporary Total Disability , Workers’ Compensation , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

Excluding Counsel Fees From Payment of Future Medical Benefits Based on Future Medical Expenses as Speculative is Contrary to Sec....

Patrice Williams v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB); No: 277 C.D. 2023; filed Mar. 21, 2024; Judge McCullough - In this case, a workers’ compensation judge granted in part and denied in part the claimant’s Petition to Review. The...more

7/30/2024 / Attorney's Fees , Medical Bills , Medical Expenses , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

Under Section 440 of the Act, an Unreasonable Contest Will Always Result in an Award of Attorney’s Fees and a Reasonable Contest...

Glenny Torres v. Amazon.com Services LLC (WCAB); No. 1398 C.D. 2022; filed Apr. 9, 2024; Judge Wallace - In this case, a workers’ compensation judge granted a Claim Petition and ordered payment of benefits for a September 17,...more

7/29/2024 / Attorney's Fees , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Did Not Err in Granting Employer’s Petition for a De Novo Hearing to Present After-discovered...

Bernice Bennett v. Jeld Wen, Inc. (WCAB); No. 1454 C.D. 2022; filed Oct. 6, 2023; President Judge Cohn Jubelirer (previously unreported and designated reported by Order dated Dec. 15, 2023) - The claimant settled a 2010 work...more

4/15/2024 / Compromise & Release , Physicians , Self-Referral , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

Although Claimant Cannot Be Working With a Concurrent Employer on Date of Work Injury With Another Employer, the Relationship With...

Resources for Human Development, Inc. and Gallagher Bassett Services v. Sherry Dixon (WCAB); No. 494 C.D. 2022; filed Dec. 20, 2023; President Judge Cohn Jubelirer - The claimant sustained an injury on December 29, 2018,...more

4/15/2024 / Compensation & Benefits , Wage and Hour , Workers' Compensation Claim , Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) , Workplace Injury

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