Background Facts of Case On October 20, 2006, Dr. Jack Rabin was a professor employed by the Pennsylvania State University. Sandra Rabin later pursued a fatal workers’ compensation claim petition alleging Dr. Rabin’s November 13, 2006 death resulted from work-related injuries incurred on October 20, 2006. At that time, Dr. Rabin already had several serious systemic conditions,… Read more »
Background Facts of Case Claimant sustained a foot injury at work on August 12, 2009. Claimant’s regular job at the employer was confined to being a pallet jack driver. He was trained regarding this position and the operation of the pallet jack, he was tested concerning the operational aspects of the job, and he was… Read more »
Background Facts of Case In 2005, claimant sustained a work related low back injury which the employer accepted as compensable and for which claimant initially received disability benefits. He eventually returned to work and his indemnity benefits payments were properly suspended. However, in October 2006, claimant contended that he experienced intense back pain with lower left extremity… Read more »
Factual Background In 2008, claimant was a member of a labor crew for a paving company. While waiting for the next truckload of asphalt to arrive, the crew found a bowling ball next to the parking lot where they were working. After a round of shot-put, a challenge arose among the crew members to see… Read more »
Background Facts of Case The most common case implicating an alleged statutory employer as liable for workers’ compensation benefits for an individual, typically involves a construction worker whose direct employer, namely, a subcontractor on a large construction project, has failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage for that individual. In that instance, the subcontractor has… Read more »
Factual Background Claimant had sustained occupationally-related cervical and lumbar spine injuries on June 6, 1997 and on March 31, 1998, and had incurred another work-related cervical injury on September 3, 1998. After the 1998 injury, claimant never returned to work. At that point, he was fifty-one years old and had been a twenty-year employee of… Read more »
Factual Background of Case In June 2007, the Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh, hosted the annual U.S. Open Golf Tournament. Employer provided certain services at this U.S. Open, and hired Claimant to work there. Claimant’s assigned job duty was to watch an open tent with a Lexus vehicle on display inside. His shift was from… Read more »
Background Facts of Case Claimant, a stagehand, sustained a back injury on September 11, 2007 while working at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, due to a fall. His injury had been legally described as involving a lumbar level L3-4 disk herniation and a lumbar strain. As a result of the injury, Claimant was paid partial disability… Read more »
Background Facts of Case Claimant was a housekeeper for the Pennsylvania State University Behrend Campus. On June 7, 2007, he left where he was working at Perry Hall, to take a one-half hour unpaid lunch break at an on-campus dining facility operated by Employer, where Claimant participated in an Employer-sponsored meal plan. (He would have… Read more »
Background Facts of Case Claimant sustained a work injury in October, 2006. He was thereafter paid total disability benefits appropriately under the terms of a Notice of Compensation Payable. Prior to the injury, he worked overtime, and, of course, his overtime pay was included in his average weekly pre-injury wage figure calculation, from which his… Read more »