Meadow Lakes Apartments v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Meadow Lake Apartments (Employer) petitions for review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ), thereby granting Fred Spencer’s (Claimant) review petition to expand the description of an accepted injury. For the following reasons, we affirm.

In November 1997, Claimant, a carpenter, sustained a severe right knee injury in the course of his employment. Employer accepted the injury as compensable. It issued an NCP describing the injury as a medial meniscal tear of the right knee.…