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The Appellate Court affirms dismissal of claim for plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate his injury was in the course and scope of his employment.
The Appellate Division affirmed a workers’ compensation decision to dismiss a claim petition with prejudice and deny the petitioner’s motion for benefits.
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An attempt to reopen a claim under Protz II is time barred under § 413(a) of the Act as the attempt was made more than three years from the last date benefit payments were received.
The claimant underwent an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) on April 28, 2003.
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Reinstatement of benefits was retroactive to the date of a post-Protz II reinstatement petition filed in 2019 and not retroactive to the date of the 2009 IRE.
The claimant sustained a work injury in June of 2006. In June of 2009, he was seen for an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) and given an impairment rating of less than 50%.
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Filing notice of temporary compensation payable paying indemnity benefits and then medical-only notice of compensation payable to stop payment does not obligate employer to also file notice stopping temporary compensation payable & notice of compensation.
Following the claimant’s September 14, 2018, work injury, the employer issued a notice of temporary compensation payable (NTCP). Thereafter, a medical-only notice of compensation payable was issued.
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As the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a Disaster Declaration which suspended Section 449 of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act requiring the attestation of the claimant's signature on a Compromise &a
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Partial dismissal granted under Fed. R Civ.P 12(b)(6) for failure to pled a feasible alternative design.
The plaintiff sued for injuries she claimed she suffered while riding a roller coaster.
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Summary judgment granted on claim of ordinary negligence for failure to prevent loose object from striking patron on a roller coaster.
The plaintiff sued after being blinded in one eye by a cell phone that “became unsecured” from another patron on a roller coaster.
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Summary judgment affirmed for water park as no duty to patron to assist in getting on lazy river inner tube.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the trial court’s findings based on the plaintiff’s inadequacy in demonstrating a question of fact.
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No unlawful practice of dentistry as defendant did not control clinical treatment to patients or dentists with whom it contracted.
On appeal, the court found that the defendant could not have unlawfully practiced dentistry because it did not control clinical treatment to patients or dentists, who it contracted with.
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