Appeals Court Continues Rejecting Philly Police Claims for COVID-19

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued three more decisions finding that res judicata or collateral estoppel bars Philadelphia police officers from pursuing workers' compensation benefits for COVID-19. The three unpublished decisions handed down Thursday involved similar fact patterns. The city provided "excused time" to officers who reported being diagnosed with COVID-19. The benefit allowed them to receive their full salaries without using other forms of accrued leave. After the city ended the excused time benefit, the officers essentially argued that the excused ...