Legal Opinion
Reifsnyder v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 28, 2005No. 4, 5 & 6 EAP 2004PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*344 OPINION
Justice CASTILLE.
In these three consolidated appeals, this Court is faced with the following question concerning the 1996 amendments to Section 309(d) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”), see 77 P.S. § 582(d): what constitutes the proper calculation of a claimant’s average weekly wage (“AWW”) for purposes of computing a workers’ compensation benefit in the situation where the injured employee was subject to work-related layoffs for business/economic reasons in the relevant look-back period? This Court has recently examined the proper calculation of a claimant’s AWW under…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Hannaberry HVAC v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
- Peterson v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1991
- Harper & Collins v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
- Triangle Building Center v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
- Colpetzer v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
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3Cited by35 opinions
- City of Pittsburgh v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Lahr Mechanical v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2007
- Dana Holding Corp. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2018
- Kurpiewski v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
- Moberg v. Workers' Compensation Appeal BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
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