Workers’ Compensation • Fatal Claim Petition • Cancer as Occupational Disease • Revival of Claim Extinguished by Statute of Repose
City of Warren v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Thomas Haines, deceased), PICS Case No. 17-0417 (Pa. Commw. March 9, 2017) Leavitt, J. (17 pages).
Act 46 did not serve to revive workers’ compensation claims for cancer as an occupational disease that had been extinguished by a prior statute of repose, where Act 46 was not retroactive in effect. Order of the workers’ compensation appeal board reversed.
