Case Studies
Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Case Studies
Read about past workers’ compensation and work injury cases in Pennsylvania below.
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PA Workers’ Compensation – Suspension of Wage Loss Benefits – Removal From Workforce – Chesik v. WCAB
Chesik v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Department of Military & Veterans’ Affairs) Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Decision November 9, 2015 Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-The court held that the workers’ compensation judge erred in suspending a claimant’s benefits based solely on her move to Nevada and her receipt of a disability pension as
PA Workers’ Compensation – Joinder Petition/ Statutory Employer – Saladworks v. WCAB
Saladworks v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Decision October 6, 2015 Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-Because a restaurant franchisor’s main business was the sale of franchises to buyers desiring to use its name and expertise, rather than the actual operation of restaurants, the work performed by a franchisee in
PA Workers’ Compensation – Reinstatement of Wage Loss Benefits – Sloane v. WCAB
Sloane v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Decision October 1, 2015 Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board properly upheld a portion of a workers’ compensation judge’s (WCJ) determination that a claimant’s right-knee replacement surgery and related treatment were compensable medical expenses that were related to her second work
PA Workers’ Compensation – Course and Scope of Employment Case – Dixon v. WCAB
Dixon v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Medrad, Inc.) Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania May 29, 2015, Submitted; March 30, 2016, Decided; March 30, 2016, Filed Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-The WCJ properly suspended petitioner’s TTD benefits; because the physician who performed an IME testified that petitioner could perform the modified position the employer
PA Workers’ Compensation – Impairment Rating Evaluation, Maximum Medical Improvement – Neff v. WCAB
Neff v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Decision January 8, 2015 Overview HOLDINGS: [1]-In a workers’ compensation case, because a physician’s credited medical opinions established that the claimant had reached maximum medical improvement in accordance with the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,
PA Workers’ Compensation – Course and Scope of Employment Case – Dougherty v. WCAB
Thomas Dougherty v. WCAB (OVC, Inc.). PA Commonwealth Court, October 14, 2014 Thomas Dougherty (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board), which affirmed the decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) dismissing Claimant’s reinstatement petition under Section 413(a) of the Workers’ Compensation Act
