Court: Payment of Wages to Cop With COVID Wasn't in Lieu of Benefits

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a city’s payment of wage continuation benefits to a police officer after she contracted COVID-19 was not an acceptance of liability for her illness as compensable. Case: Deveaux v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB), No. 531 C.D. 2024, 03/28/2025, unpublished. Facts: Tyra Deveaux worked for the City of Philadelphia as a police officer. She contracted COVID-19 in March 2020. Deveaux informed her supervisor that she was sick and said she believed she had contracted COVID-19 at work. She has not returned to work since her illness. The city...