COLPETZER v. W.C.A.B. (STANDARD STEEL)


870 A.2d 875 (2005)

William COLPETZER v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (STANDARD STEEL), Appeal of Standard Steel. David Zerby v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Reading Anthracite Company), Appeal of Reading Anthracite Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 30, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Tucker, Pittsburgh, Dennis Richard Sheaffer, for Standard Steel, appellant.

Katherine M. Lenahan, Scranton, for Reading Anthracite Co., appellant.

Andrew Edison Greenberg, Norristown, for Pa. Defense Inst., appellant amicus curiae.

Amber Marie Kenger, Mechanicsburg, Richard C. Lengler, Harrisburg, for W.C.A.B., appellee.

Daniel King Bricmont, Pittsburgh, for William Colpetzer, appellee.

Jeffrey Charles Majikas, for David Zerby, appellee.

Thomas Patrick Brown, Carlisle, for PA Trial Lawyers Ass'n, appellee amicus curiae.

Before: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and LAMB, JJ.


OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

In Hannaberry HVAC v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Bd. (Snyder, Jr.), 575 Pa.66, 834 A.2d 524 (2003), this Court recently considered whether, under Section 309(d) of the Workers' Compensation Act, see 77 P.S. § 582(d), the General Assembly intended that a seriously and permanently injured full-time worker, whose three months of full-time employment was immediately preceded...

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