# Verbilla v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

> Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · December 6, 1995 · 668 A.2d 601

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4952025

## Case

- **Full name:** Anthony VERBILLA v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (Schuylkill Nursing Association)
- **Court:** Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 6, 1995
- **Citations:** 668 A.2d 601; 1995 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 606
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Doyle
- **Judges:** Colins, Doyle, Friedman, Kelley, McGinley, Pellegrini, Smith
- **Cited by:** 11 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that "[ajgencies must look beyond the similarities between the issues, evaluate the policies behind the acts, and apply estoppel only where the issues are identical and the actions promote similar policies and rights.”
- holding that decisions of unemployment compensation referees are not binding in workers’ compensation proceedings
- discussing Section 28, Comment (d)

## Opinion text

DOYLE, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent for the reasons already expressed in my dissenting opinion in Bortz v. Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Reznor Division of FL Industries), 656 A.2d 554 (Pa.Cmwlth.1995) (Doyle, J., dissenting).
SMITH, J., joins in this dissent.

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