High Court Won't Review Judge's Refusal to Set Aside Errant Benefit Notice

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a petition to review a judge's refusal to set aside a notice accepting liability for a firefighter's cancer claim that a city had intended to deny. The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in April ruled that a workers' compensation judge did not abuse her discretion when she refused to set aside a notice of compensation payable that Philadelphia sent to firefighter John Bell regarding his claim for colon cancer. The city argued that it intended to deny Bell's claim in September 2022 but mistakenly mailed him a notice that it was ...