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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY v. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (PARKER) Petition of: Harold Parker Harold Parker, Petitioner v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (County of Allegheny), Respondents
    No. 30 WAL 2017
    No. 31 WAL 2017
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    June 6, 2017
   ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 6th day.of June, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(a.) Whether the Commonwealth Court erred when it held, without legal precedent, that a workers’ compensation claimant’s attorney must disgorge and return unreasonable contest attorney’s fees if the employer ultimately prevails?

(b.) Whether the disgorgement and return of unreasonable contest attorney’s fees when the employer ultimately prevails is better left to the legislature rather than the courts?