City of Philadelphia v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

The City of Philadelphia (Employer) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that granted the claim petition of Joseph Seaman (Claimant). In doing so, the Board affirmed the decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that Claimant had sustained a work-related binaural hearing loss. Employer asserts that the testimony of Claimant’s medical expert was equivocal, causing a capricious disregard of Employer’s medical evidence. Discerning no merit to this argument, we affirm.

On July 8, 2006, Claimant retired after having…