Goettler Distributing, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Dissenting Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr:

I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which holds that the claimant presented *637competent evidence of a health-based necessitous and compelling cause for her quit.

The majority concludes that the claimants testimony alone satisfies the competent evidence standard set forth in Deiss v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 475 Pa. 547, 381 A.2d 132 (1977). As support for this, it quotes a statement in Judd v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 91 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 372, 496 A.2d 1377 (1985), that…