Legal Opinion
Cummings Lumber Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 22, 1995PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLINS, President Judge.
Cummings Lumber Company (Cummings) petitions for review of the May 1, 1995 decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board), affirming the workers’ compensation judge’s (WCJ) dismissal of Cummings’s suspension petition. We reverse.
In July 1994, Cummings requested that compensation to its injured worker, Eugene Young, be suspended for the reason that Young had been convicted of a crime in August of 1991 and incarcerated. In making this request, Cummings relied on Section 306(a)(2) of the Workers’ Compensation Act *1028(Act),1 effective August 31, 1993, which…
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- Raymond v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
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