Opinion

Cable v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

  • 541 Pa. 611
  • 664 A.2d 1349
  • 1995 Pa. LEXIS 720
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Sep 22, 1995
Status
Published
Author
Cappy
On the bench
Nix, Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Montemuro
Cited by
12 cases

holding that the 300-week period of Section 301(c)(2) begins to run on the date of exposure rather than the date of the claimant’s last employment

How later courts described this case

  • holding that the 300-week period of Section 301(c)(2) begins to run on the date of exposure rather than the date of the claimant’s last employment
  • reiterating that “relevant employment is employment in which a worker is exposed to the hazard of occupational disease” and describing our reasoning in Avalotis as “impeccable”
  • reasoning that “period of exposure, not the total period of employment, is the governing factor”
  • "[t]he three-hundred week period prescribed in [Section 301(c)(2

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

CAPPY, Justice,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent on the basis of the well-reasoned opinion of the Commonwealth Court.

CASTILLE, J., joins this dissenting opinion.

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