Supreme Court to Decide if Benefits Can Be Suspended for Incarceration Period

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on an employer’s entitlement to the suspension of a worker’s benefits for the time the worker was in jail. An administrative law judge had found that Carl Sadler’s employer was entitled to a credit against the future benefits payable to him for the time he was behind bars. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board agreed with the judge, but the Commonwealth Court did not. The court said the Workers’ Compensation Act allows for the suspension of benefits “for any period during which the employee is incarce...