Where an employer was on notice of a claimant’s work injury and did not timely issue an NCP as required by the Act, there was no reasonable basis to contest the claim petition and an award of attorney fees under § 440(a) of the Act should have been made.

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Workers' Compensation
The claimant sustained a work injury to his left arm on February 27, 2016, and gave the employer notice of the injury What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of intere
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Commonwealth Court holds that Act 111, which implemented the new IRE provisions under § 306(a.3) of the Act, was not a substantive change of the law and could not be applied retroactively, absent a clear legislative intent to do so.

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Workers' Compensation
In this case, at the time of Act 111’s enactment in October of 2018, the employer had pending an appeal of a judge’s d What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of intere
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