Macomber v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

*1284OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

This ease presents a question of first impression in Pennsylvania: whether the phrase “has a place of business,” as used in the extraterritorial injury provision in Section 305.2 of the Workers’ Compensation Act,1 (Act) requires that the out-of-state “place of business” be owned or leased by the employer in order for a claimant’s employment to be “principally localized” there. We are here concerned with a locale in New Jersey, where Penske Transportation Services (Employer) and its insurers assert Henry Macomber’s (Claimant) employment is principally localized, so that…