Supreme Court Grants Review of Dispute Over Occupational Disease Act's Reach

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on a dispute on whether an occupational disease that manifests more than four years after an employee's last exposure to hazards causing that disease is subject to the exclusive remedy mandate of the Occupational Disease Act. The issue arose in a case called Herold v. University of Pittsburg, No. 998 C.D. 2021. In February, the Commonwealth Court ruled that the ODA’s exclusive remedy mandate did not apply to William L. Herold, who died from cancer caused by asbestos exposures over 15 years earlier while working for the Univ...