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An order compelling a claimant to attend an IRE is interlocutory and was, therefore, properly quashed by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board.
The claimant sustained a work injury on December 11, 2013, and began receiving benefits pursuant to a Notice of Compen
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Claimant injured in car accident while on a morning “lunch break.” Judge denies compensability as the lunch break was purely personal in nature and of no benefit to the employer. Judge also held that neither the special hazard nor dual purpose exceptions
This case involves an employee who took her lunch break in the morning so that she could take her son to school.
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Judge denies claimant’s petition as the statute of limitations had run and agrees that a doctor visit and prescribed medication were unauthorized.
The employer asserted that the statute of limitations had run on the claimant’s 2011 work injury when the claimant fil
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The judge finds that the claimant made false representations and holds entire claim was barred.
The claimant filed a petition seeking compensability of a hip and ankle injury.
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The claimant failed to provide adequate notice that his stomach cancer was caused by his firefighting duties under § 311 of the Act and, therefore, his claim petition was properly dismissed.
The claimant began working as a volunteer firefighter for the employer in 2002.
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