# Arena v. Packaging Systems Corp.

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 20, 1986 · 510 Pa. 34

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9765402

## Case

- **Full name:** Vincent ARENA, Appellee, v. PACKAGING SYSTEMS CORP. and Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 20, 1986
- **Citations:** 510 Pa. 34; 507 A.2d 18; 1986 Pa. LEXIS 729
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Larsen
- **Judges:** Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDer-mott, Hutchinson, Zappala, Papadakos
- **Cited by:** 43 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- describing capricious disregard as a deliberate disregard of competent evidence which one of ordinary intelligence could not possibly have avoided in reaching a result

## Opinion text

LARSEN, J.,
dissents on the basis of the Commonwealth Court opinion authored by Judge CRAIG, Arena v. Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Packaging Systems Corp.), 85 Pa.Commw. 553, 483 A.2d 577 (1984).
JUDGMENT
ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, it is now hereby ordered and adjudged by this Court that the Order of the Commonwealth Court is reversed and the Order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board is reinstated.

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