In Re Appeal of Upper Providence Police Delaware County Lodge 27

OPINION OF THE COURT

LARSEN, Justice.

We granted allocatur in this case to address two issues: (1) the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under “Act 111,” Act of June 24, 1968, P.L. 237, No. 111, 43 P.S. §§ 217.1-217.10 (Supp.1986) (“Collective Bargaining By Policemen Or Firemen”); and (2) whether the lower courts erred in reversing the award of the arbitrators which denied certain post-retirement hospital and medical benefits for 1984.

Upper Providence Township (Township) bargained collectively under Act 111 with the representative of its police, the Fraternal Order of Police,…