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Audrey Copeland (King of Prussia, PA) convinced the Commonwealth Court to affirm the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board’s decisions denying the claimant’s penalty petition and granting the employer’s termination petition. The claimant, an inspector of commercial properties in the Mid-Atlantic region, was injured when the bed in his hotel room collapsed. The court rejected the claimant’s arguments that the decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Judge were not supported by substantial evidence and that the employer’s expert’s testimony conflicted with previously determined medical facts. Havens v. WCAB (CNA Financial Corporation), 2018 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 94 (Pa. Commw. Ct. Feb. 14, 3018).

In another workers’ compensation appeal, Audrey obtained the court’s affirmance of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board’s decision quashing the claimant’s late nunc pro tunc appeal. Although the claimant argued that he was not notified of hearings after his counsel withdrew his appearance, he failed to contend that this affected his ability to file a timely appeal or provide any other reason for nunc pro tunc relief. Patterson v. WCAB (SMX Staffing), 2018 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 138 (Pa. Commw. Ct. Apr. 19, 2018).

*Prior Results Do Not Guarantee a Similar Outcome

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