Lykins v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

The Majority concludes that when Appellant’s substantive rights to receive workers’ compensation and unemployment compensation benefits accrued is irrelevant, since Appellant is exempted from the class of workers’ compensation claimants to whom the change in indemnity compensation payable under the amended Section 204(a) is applicable. While I agree that Appellant herein is exempted, I am compelled nonetheless to write to emphasize that the analysis employed by the Commonwealth Court in its published opinion is erroneous and contrary to established case law.

While the Commonwealth Court…