Department of Corrections v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

This case is before us on remand from our Supreme Court. We are again called upon to determine whether a corrections officer’s fear of retaliation constitutes good cause for his failure to report and intervene in an assault on an inmate orchestrated by a fellow corrections officer. In particular, we are to review this case in light of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Grieb v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 573 Pa. 594, 827 A.2d 422 (2003) and Navickas v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 567 Pa. 298, 787 A.2d 284 (2001), where the Court declined to…