Employer Gets Credit for Benefits Paid to Worker

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the retroactive application of Act 111’s credit provision to an employer that made 500 weeks of benefit payments to an injured employee. Case: Mortimer v. Stamco (WCAB), No. 75 C.D.2023, 01/18/2024, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Scott Mortimer worked as a nurse for Select Medical Corp. He injured his back at work in 1999, and Select accepted liability. In 2007, a workers’ compensation law judge changed Mortimer’s disability status from total to partial, based on the results of an impairment rating evaluation t...