Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2005

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

J.G. Furniture Division v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided December 21, 2005
585 Pa. 473; 889 A.2d 44

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

Opinion of the Court

*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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