GRADY v. W.C.A.B. (LUTZ)

No. 16 C.D. 2011.

26 A.3d 1229 (2011)

Thomas GRADY, Petitioner v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (LUTZ t/a Top of the Line Roofing, Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund and ACS Claims Service), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 5, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne F. Green , Lancaster, and Daniel J. Siegel , Havertown, for petitioner.

Karyn Dobroskey Rienzi , Philadelphia, for respondents Top of the Line Roofing and Jerome Lutz.

Brian W. Carter , Harrisburg, for respondent PA Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund.

BEFORE: LEADBETTER, President Judge, and BROBSON, Judge, and FRIEDMAN, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY President Judge LEADBETTER.

Claimant Thomas Grady petitions for review from that portion of the December 20, 2010 order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that reversed the Workers' Compensation Judge's (WCJ) award of attorney's fees against Employer Lutz t/a Top of the Line Roofing for an unreasonable contest under Section 440(a) of the Workers' Compensation Act (Act).1 We affirm.

On July 12, 2007, Claimant...

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