CPV Manufacturing, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

President Judge COLINS.

Presented to this Court is the question of whether an employee’s time away from work to pursue medical treatment needed to resolve a workers’ compensation injury, where such treatment is readily available during non-work hours, constitutes a “disability” as that term is defined by the Workers’ Compensation Act1 and related case law. We conclude that it does not.

Petitioners, CPV Manufacturing, Inc., employer, and its insurer, PMA Insurance Group, have filed a petition for review of the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a Workers’…