Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Senior Judge COLINS.

Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. (Employer) petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that affirmed the denial of its Modification Petition on the ground that the physician who performed the Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) on which the Modification Petition was based did not meet the requirement of Section *944306(a.2) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act)1 that physicians performing IREs must be “active in clinical practice for at least twenty hours per week.” We affirm.

Arthur Ketterer, Jr. (Claimant), a service…