City of Philadelphia v. WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia v. WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD, 4 A.3d 154 (Pa. 2010)
607 Pa. 96; 2010 Pa. LEXIS 2083
Per Curiam
City of Philadelphia v. WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD
Opinion
ORDER
AND NOW, this 9th day of September, 2010, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the following issue:
Whether the Commonwealth Court’s decision to reverse the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board and reinstate the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge is supported by substantial competent evidence, given (1) the rebuttable statutory presumption, under Section 801(e) of the Workers’ Compensation Act, that Decedent’s occupational disease, i.e., hepatitis C, arose out of and in the course of his employment as a firefighter; and (2) the absence of any evidence establishing that Decedent was an intravenous drug user, shared needles, and/or came in contact with contaminated needles.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (KRIEBEL). Petition of Patricia Kriebel
- Status
- Published