Channellock, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge McGINLEY.

Channellock, Inc. (Employer) attacks the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) grant of Employer’s petition to modify/suspend benefits and the denial of L. Thomas Reynolds’s (Claimant) petition to reinstate/modify. The Board affirmed the WCJ’s grant of Claimant’s penalty petition. The Board denied Claimant’s request for reasonable contest attorney fees and awarded Claimant reasonable litigation costs in the amount of $4,693.59.

I. Background.

On July 31, 2001, Claimant sustained an injury within…