# J.G. Furniture Division v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 21, 2005 · 585 Pa. 473

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6267860

## Case

- **Full name:** J.G. FURNITURE DIVISION/BURLINGTON and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (KNELLER) Petition of J.G. Furniture Division/Burlington and Kemper Insurance Company
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 21, 2005
- **Citations:** 585 Pa. 473; 889 A.2d 44
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

*474
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 21st day of December, 2005, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby granted, limited to the following issue:
Whether an injury that resolves into a specific loss is a “new injury” for purposes of determining the compensation rate or whether it is merely a continuum of the original injury, in which circumstance the original compensation rate controls.

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