Curtis v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

FLAHERTY, Judge.

Keith Curtis (Claimant) appeals from the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) granting of Berley Electric Company’s (Employer) Petition for Suspension which raises for the first time the issue of whether a claimant’s total disability benefits may be suspended under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (Act) when he voluntarily inflicts an incapacitating injury to himself which prevents the possibility of his returning to the work force. 1 We affirm.

On September 27, 1988, while employed as an…