COMMERCIAL CREDIT CLAIMS v. W.C.A.B.


556 Pa. 325 (1999)

728 A.2d 902

COMMERCIAL CREDIT CLAIMS, Appellant, v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (LANCASTER), Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Trenor, Miles D. Kirshner, Pittsburgh, for Commercial Credit.

Anthony Kovach, Lancaster, for appellees.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This Court granted review in order to decide whether an employer seeking to terminate a claimant's workers' compensation benefits must disprove a causal relationship between the work-related injury and a subsequently alleged psychiatric injury where the employer accepted liability in the Notice of Compensation Payable only for the physical injuries suffered from the work-related accident. We find that in these...

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