Kern v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

Martha H. Kern (Claimant) petitions for review of the order of the State Employees’ Retirement Board (Board) which granted her a temporary disability annuity for one week. We reverse in part and remand.

Claimant worked as a hydrogeologist in the Department of Environmental Services. On January 1, 1985, she gave birth to a child who died in the delivery room of complications during the delivery. Claimant came under a psychiatrist’s care, developed post-traumatic stress disorder and left her job on May 31, 1985, for a period of hospitalization. On October 25,…