# Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Derry Area School District)

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 22, 2016 · 635 Pa. 199

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3187893

## Case

- **Full name:** Mary Ann PROTZ, Petitioner v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (DERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT), Respondents
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 22, 2016
- **Citations:** 635 Pa. 199; 133 A.3d 733; 2016 Pa. LEXIS 501; 2016 WL 1119004
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Judges:** Per Curiam
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT

MARY ANN PROTZ, : No. 416 WAL 2015
:
Petitioner :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
: the Order of the Commonwealth Court
v. :
:
:
WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL :
BOARD (DERRY AREA SCHOOL :
DISTRICT), :
:
Respondents :

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 22nd day of March, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

Whether the Commonwealth Court - after properly determining that
Section 306(a.2) of the Workers’ Compensation Act was unconstitutional -
erred in remanding the case to the Workers’ Compensation Judge with
instructions to apply the Fourth Edition of the American Medical
Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment when
neither Section 306(a.2) nor any other section of the Act ever references
the Fourth Edition and its usage was not sanctioned by the Pennsylvania
Legislature.

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