Cozzone v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

This appeal presents an issue of statutory interpretation concerning Section 413(a) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”), 77 P.S. § 772: specifically, whether the claimant/appellant1 should have been permitted to proceed on a post>-500week petition for reinstatement of total disability benefits where he filed that petition within three years of his most recent payment of compensation, a payment which was made pursuant to a post-500week supplemental agreement, notwithstanding a prior suspension of payments due to his return to work without a loss in earning…