Champion v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

I respectfully dissent. In the context of a reinstatement petition, where a partially disabled claimant has been laid off or discharged from his employment and is now seeking a reinstatement of total disability benefits, the claimant’s burden is to show that his condition has worsened such that he can no longer perform the light-duty work to which he was assigned before he was discharged. Barnett v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Paul Riggle & Sons), 718 A.2d 901 (Pa.Cmwlth.1998), petition for allowance of appeal denied, 559 Pa. 680, 739 A.2d 544 (1999); Kane v. Workmen’s Compensation…