Jeanes Hospital v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

Justice NEWMAN.

This Court is called upon to decide the appropriate mechanism by which a workers’ compensation claimant can institute proceedings to amend a Notice of Compensation Payable (NCP) to add additional injuries. In the instant matter, Shawn Hass (Appellant) was employed by Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia (Employer) for about ten months as an intensive care nurse when, on August 31, 1995, she was injured while attempting to relocate a ventilator-dependent patient by means of a Hoyer lift.1 The Employer accepted responsibility and she received benefits for total disability…