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physical-mental standard in Pennsylvania

6 Pennsylvania opinions name it 1 courts 1998–2024 4 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Pennsylvania courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (5)

CaseFollowedCited
Ryan v. Workman's Compensation Appeal Boardgreen
pa · 1998 · cited in 5 Pennsylvania opinions naming this issue, 1998–2024
2 sentences

2024For example, in Ryan v. Workm[e]n’s Compensation Appeal Board (Community Health Services), 707 A.2d 1130, 1131 (Pa. 1998), a claimant who was involved in a work-related automobile accident later suffered a psychological injury upon learning that she was being sued by the driver of the other vehicle in the accident.

2022Id. at 1135 .

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Murphy v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Boardgreen
pacommwct · 2015 · cited in 2 Pennsylvania opinions naming this issue, 2017–2024
2 sentences

2024Murphy, 110 A.3d at 237 .

2017Murphy, 110 A.3d at 234 (citing Bartholetti v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (School District of Philadelphia), 927 A.2d 743, 746 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2007)).

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Gulick v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Boardgreen
pacommwct · 1998 · cited in 1 Pennsylvania opinions naming this issue, 2024–2024
2 sentences

2024Id.; see Gulick v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Pepsi Cola Operating Co.), 711 A.2d 585, 588-89 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1998) (rejecting application of the physical-mental standard where the evidence showed that the claimant’s mental illness was not caused by or aggravated by his physical injury, but by the employer filing a termination petition).

2024Id.; see Gulick v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Pepsi Cola Operating Co.), 711 A.2d 585, 588-89 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1998) (rejecting application of the physical-mental standard where the evidence showed that the claimant’s mental illness was not caused by or aggravated by his physical injury, but by the employer filing a termination petition).

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Frankiewicz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Kinder Morgan, Inc.)green
pacommwct · 2017 · cited in 1 Pennsylvania opinions naming this issue, 2023–2023
1 sentence

2023Appeal Bd. (Kinder Morgan, Inc.), 177 A.3d 991, 996 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2017) (quoting Murphy v. Workers’ Comp.

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Bartholetti v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Boardgreen
pacommwct · 2007 · cited in 1 Pennsylvania opinions naming this issue, 2017–2017
1 sentence

2017Murphy, 110 A.3d at 234 (citing Bartholetti v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (School District of Philadelphia), 927 A.2d 743, 746 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2007)).

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Pennsylvania. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (3)

CaseCitedYears
Anderson v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board green
pacommwct · 2004
2 sentences

2017There, the claimant worked in a group home for mentally and physically challenged young adults and filed a claim petition alleging that she sustained a work-related mental injury as a result of, inter alia, a client “pulling at [her] hair and pulling at [her] blouse.” Anderson, 862 A.2d at 681 .

2017See Murphy, 110 A.3d at 238 ; Anderson, 862 A.2d at 683 .

12017–2017
Donovan v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board green
pacommwct · 1999
1 sentence

2017Id.

12017–2017
Pittsburgh Board of Education v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board green
pacommwct · 2004
2 sentences

2017Id.

2017Schulz, 840 A.2d at 1079-80 .

12017–2017

Where else courts name it

PA 6 (1998–2024) ID 3 (2009–2014) AK 2 (2020–2022)

Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.

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