U.S. Airways v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Justice NIGRO.

This workers’ compensation case concerns the scope of a special supersedeas hearing on a claimant’s challenge to an insurer’s notice of suspension of benefits brought pursuant to section 413(c) of the of the Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”),1 77 P.S. § 774.2. Specifically, we are asked to resolve whether the workers’ compensation judge (“WCJ”) properly found as part of her decision on such a challenge that in addition to suspending the claimant’s benefits during the term of her re-employment, the insurer was entitled to continue to suspend the claimant’s…