Cytemp Specialty Steel v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Crisman)

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Cytemp Specialty Steel (Employer) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) granting, on this Court’s remand, the claim petition of Richard Crisman (Claimant). In doing so, the Board affirmed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that Claimant was totally disabled as of November 7,1995, by a 1992 neck injury. Concluding that the issue of Claimant’s disability as of November 7, 1995, has been previously litigated, we reverse the Board.

The nature and extent of Claimant’s loss of earning power has been the…