Attorneys Debate Impact, Application of Recent Court Rulings

Pennsylvania attorneys are flagging three recent state Supreme Court decisions addressing labor market surveys, psychological injury claims, and a recognized exception to exclusivity as cases that have shaken up the workers' compensation system and will shape how things will come. All three of these cases – Payes v. WCAB, Phoenixville Hospital v. WCAB, and Tooey v. AK Steel Corp. – involved reversals of the Commonwealth Court, which would seem to suggest there is an ideological divide between it and the Supreme Court. Allegheny County Workers' ...