Last week, the Commonwealth Court took the action of reporting the March 11 opinion in the Vaughn v. WCAB (Carrara Steel Erectors) matter. While injured workers across the commonwealth may have preferred that it stay unreported, the case does provide some guidance in dealing with the dreaded job offer letters from the pre-injury employer.
The facts in Vaughn are extremely common. The claimant, Cliff Vaughn, suffered a work-related back injury on July 23, 2005, which was accepted though claim petition litigation. On Jan. 3, 2008, the claimant underwent an independent medical exam (IME) that concluded that Vaughn was capable of returning to work in a modified/medium-duty capacity.
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