Donahue v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Joseph Donahue (Claimant) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) refusing to reinstate Claimant’s suspended benefits or to impose penalties on Claimant’s employer for suspending benefits. In so adjudicating, the Board affirmed the decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that the suspension was appropriate because otherwise Claimant would have been compensated at a higher level than employees doing the work he was doing at the time of his injury.

On December 19, 1999, Claimant sustained a left shoulder and lower…