Court Upholds Denial of Employer's Petition to Convert Worker's TTD Status to TPD

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a municipal employer’s petition to convert an injured worker’s status from temporarily totally disabled to temporarily partially disabled. Lamont Turner worked for the City of Philadelphia as a corrections officer. He suffered injuries at work in March 2006 and began receiving temporary total disability benefits. In May 2021, a workers’ compensation judge granted the city’s petition to terminate Turner’s benefits in part. The judge found that Turner had recovered from all of his injuries except for...