Cinram Manufacturing, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed primarily to address whether, during a termination proceeding, a workers’ compensation judge may correct a notice of compensation payable to subsume injuries not specifically contemplated by the original notice. The question arises because, on the one hand, governing statutory provisions plainly direct that a notice of compensation payable may be corrected at any time and in the context of any petition filed by either of the parties. See 77 P.S. § 771. However, the opinion in Jeanes Hospital v. WCAB (Hass), 582 Pa. 405, 872 A.2d 159 (2005), suggests a…