Beattie v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Liberty Mutual Insurance)

NARICK, Senior Judge.

The issue before this Court is whether an employee who suffered a work-related injury, takes a less-strenuous job with no loss of wages but later quits that employment for reasons unrelated to his previous work-related injury, is entitled to a reinstatement of total disability benefits.

George Beattie (Claimant) appeals from the order of the Workers’- Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) that reversed the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) grant of benefits to Claimant. We affirm.

In 1973, Claimant, while employed for Thrift Drug Co. (Employer), sustained a work-related back…