Legal Opinion
Durante v. Pennsylvania State Police
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 25, 2002No. 561 C.D. 1999PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
Justice CAPPY.
We granted allocatur to determine whether William Durante (Trooper Durante) was temporarily incapacitated from his duties as a state trooper such that he is entitled to benefits pursuant to the Heart and Lung Act (“Act”).1 For the following reasons, we now affirm.
The facts of this case are not in dispute. On June 13, 1985, Trooper Durante sustained a work-related injury to his right arm when he was carrying two boxes of highway flares. After he returned to work, Trooper Durante suffered several recurrences of the original injury;…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Phillips v. A-Best Products Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- Cunningham v. COM., PENN. ST. POLICESupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Palmeri v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
3Cited by10 opinions
- Zane v. Friends HospitalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Jones v. RiveraSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
- Commonwealth, Department of Corrections v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
- Julia Ribaudo Senior Services v. Department of Public WelfareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
- Commonwealth v. LancitSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2016
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