Colyer v. Pennsylvania State Police

RODGERS, Senior Judge.

Corporal Ronald F. Colyer appeals from an order of the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police (Commissioner) denying Colyer’s claim for benefits under the Heart and Lung Act (Act).1 We reverse.

Colyer became a member of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1966. In 1976, he was assigned to the Bureau of Services Laboratory Division, where his duties included processing evidence at crime scenes. In 1986, Colyer testified at a criminal trial regarding his assistance at the forensic examination of a murder victim, Susan Reinert, in 1979. As a result of that testimony,…