LANE ENTERPRISES v. W.C.A.B. (PATTON)


537 Pa. 426 (1994)

644 A.2d 726

LANE ENTERPRISES, INC. and Commercial Union Insurance Company, Appellants, v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (PATTON), Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 5, 1994.

Reargument Denied August 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Ronald Cooper, Reding, Rea & Cooper, P.C., Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Thomas R. Bond, Michelle R. Punturi, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae, Pennsylvania Defense Institute.

William G. Cohen, New Castle, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY, CASTILLE and MONTEMURO, JJ.


OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We granted the Appellants' Petition for Allowance of Appeal to consider a single issue: whether an annual bonus should be prorated as wages over the whole year or only in the quarter in which it was paid.1 Both the Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board and Commonwealth Court, 150 Pa.Cmwlth. 395, 615 A.2d 975, concluded that claimant's bonus paid on February 27...

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