Opinion

Bufford v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

  • 600 Pa. 126
  • 963 A.2d 1271
  • 2009 Pa. LEXIS 74
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jan 9, 2009
Status
Published
On the bench
Per Curiam
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 72.8%

The opinion

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 9th day of January, 2009, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues for consideration, as rephrased for clarity are:

1) Under 77 P.S. § 772, what burden of proof must a claimant who leaves a modified duty position to accept other employment, which involuntarily ends due to no fault of the

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claimant, meet in order to obtain reinstatement of his or her worker’s compensation benefits, if the claimant remains disabled by his original work related injury?

2) The parties are also to address in their briefs the question of how 77 P.S. § 772 allocates the burden of proof as between the claimant and the employer in reinstatement proceedings.

See Stevens v. W.C.A.B. (Consolidation Coal Company),

563 Pa. 297 , 760 A.2d 369 (2000).

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