Employer Loses Challenges to Benefits Reinstatement, Expansion of Claim, Penalties

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected an employer’s challenges to orders reinstating a worker’s benefits, the expansion of his claim and the imposition of penalties. Case: Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board v. Berardi (WCAB), No. 649 C.D. 2023, 09/20/2024, unpublished. Facts: Amato Berardi worked for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board as a clerk at a Pennsylvania Fine Wine and Good Spirits store. He tripped and fell while returning to work from lunch on June 29, 2019. Berardi continued to work through July 11, 2019, when the board placed him on mo...