Worker's Report of Injury to Non-Supervisory Employee Wasn't Adequate Notice

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on Tuesday ordered publication of a split decision that a worker did not give his employer timely notice of an on-the-job injury by telling a co-worker he had fallen. Unpublished decisions in Pennsylvania are not binding precedent. Dennis Cullen Jr. of Cipriani & Werner, the defense attorney in Penske Logistics v. WCAB (Troxel), on Tuesday said that's why he asked that the decision be published. He said he believed the decision would be useful case law for employers in Pennsylvania because it clarified the standard of what an employee ...