Diehl v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

This appeal presents us with an opportunity to consider whether an employer, seeking to change a claimant’s workers’ compensation disability status from total disability to partial disability under 77 P.S. § 511.2, but not to change the amount of compensation, must present evidence of job availability or earning power in order to support the status change. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the Commonwealth Court’s decision that an employer who seeks to change disability status under Section 511.2 while not disturbing the compensation amount need…