IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Richard G. Kinzler, Trustee of a :

Trust for the Benefit of Kyra Kinzler, :

Petitioner :

:

v. :

:

Workers’ Compensation Appeal :

Board (Association for Vascular :

Access and Twin City Fire Insurance :

Company), : No. 165 C.D. 2020

Respondents : Argued: December 8, 2020

BEFORE: HONORABLE RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, Judge

HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROBSON, Judge1

HONORABLE CHRISTINE FIZZANO CANNON, Judge 

OPINION 

BY JUDGE FIZZANO CANNON FILED: January 6, 2021

Richard G. Kinzler (Trustee), trustee of a trust for the benefit of his 23-

year-old niece, Kyra Kinzler (Kyra), and executor of the estate of Kyra’s deceased 

mother, Janet Kinzler (Claimant), the original claimant in this matter, petitions for 

review of the February 7, 2020, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board 

(Board) affirming the November 1, 2018, decision and order of the Workers’ 

Compensation Judge (WCJ). This appeal concerns the WCJ’s determination that 

specific loss benefits payable to Claimant, which became part of her estate after her 

death from non-work-related causes and were then placed in trust for Kyra, are 

1 The decision in this case was reached prior to January 4, 2021, when Judge Brobson 

became President Judge.
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subject to the employer’s subrogation lien upon the proceeds of the third-party 

settlement for Claimant’s work-related injuries. Upon review, we affirm.

I. Background

Claimant, a diabetic, worked for the Association for Vascular Access 

(Employer)2 as its Director of Marketing, Outreach, and Membership. WCJ 

Decision, 11/1/18, Finding of Fact (F.F.) 14; Appendix to Brief of Trustee

(Appendix) at B-10. At a work-related event at a Cheesecake Factory restaurant in 

June 2013, Claimant fell from a high stool and landed on her back. F.F. 14; 

Appendix at B-10. Employer issued a Notice of Compensation Payable dated July 

18, 2013, accepting sprain injuries to Claimant’s lower back and tailbone and 

agreeing to pay weekly wage loss temporary total disability benefits of $917.00. 

Reproduced Record (R.R.) at 9a-10a.

In July 2014, Claimant filed a Review Petition seeking to expand the 

description of injury to include thoracic fractures, fusion surgery, and ensuing 

complications. R.R. at 11a-13a.3 Claimant also commenced a third-party civil tort 

2 The term “Employer” as used herein includes both the Association for Vascular Access 

and its workers’ compensation insurer, Twin City Fire Insurance Company.

3 Claimant described her injuries as: 

lumbar sprain; T7-8 and T11-12 fractures; resultant T8-L3 fusion of lumbar 

and thoracic spine; multiple pressure related ulcers of right hip, bilateral 

heels, coccyx/sacral area and abdomen; hypoglycemic encephalopathy and 

sepsis resulting in cognitive dysfunction, expressive aphasia and right sided 

weakness, right hip osteomyelitis, MRSA, bacteremia and surgical insertion 

of gastronomy tube; resultant prolonged infirmity, debility and weakened 

state resulting in marked incoordination, weakness and impaired dexterity 

causing impaired mobility; deep vein thrombosis; and depression.

R.R. at 14a-15a.
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action against the Cheesecake Factory. R.R. at 16a-32a. That lawsuit resulted in a 

June 2015 settlement to Claimant of $4,375,000.00. R.R. at 33a-43a. 

Subsequently, in July 2015, the parties completed a workers’ 

compensation third-party settlement agreement concerning Employer’s subrogation 

lien of $156,492.70 through the agreement date, additional sums for future medical 

and wage loss benefits, and Employer’s prorated share of Claimant’s attorney’s fees 

and expenses from the third-party tort suit settlement. R.R. at 44a-45a. The terms 

of the July 13, 2015, third-party settlement agreement entitled Employer to a net lien 

amount of $92,583.38; Employer agreed to ongoing weekly payments of 41% “of 

any future weekly benefits and medical expenses to satisfy its obligation to 

reimburse its pro rata share of [Claimant’s] fees and expenses until the subrogation 

interest is exhausted.” R.R. at 45a. Thus, Claimant’s weekly benefits were to be

reduced from $917.00 to $375.97 from the date of the agreement forward, until 

satisfaction of Employer’s subrogation lien. See WCJ Order, 11/1/18; Appendix at 

B-23. Claimant set up a special needs trust to secure the third-party settlement funds 

for herself during her lifetime, with her brother as Trustee and her daughter, Kyra, 

as the beneficiary of a separate trust after her death. R.R. at 46a-67a.

Claimant’s condition worsened, including the occurrence of burns from 

a heating pad she used for her back. F.F. 14; Appendix at B-10. Due to her diabetes, 

the burns developed into ulcers that failed to heal and became increasingly serious. 

Id. A fall from her bed at home in September 2013 led to an infection, sepsis, and a 

diabetes flare-up that progressed to a diabetic coma and brain damage. Id. Another 

fall in 2016 led to a broken right leg. F.F. 14; Appendix at B-11. Claimant

developed additional ulcers, necrosis on both heels, and an infection on her right 

heel. Id. Ultimately, her lower right leg below the knee was amputated in January 
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2017. Id. On April 6, 2017, Claimant filed combined Review and Modification 

Petitions asserting that the amputation was necessitated by her work-related injuries 

and constituted a specific loss of the limb. R.R. at 89a-92a. 

Unfortunately, Claimant died the following day, April 7, 2017. F.F. 14; 

Appendix at B-11. As the WCJ notes, however: “None of the various experts in the 

present case were of the view that the work accident and its consequences [] were 

implicated in [Claimant’s] death.” F.F. 8; Appendix at B-7. Thus, relevant to this 

appeal, this case does not present circumstances where Claimant’s daughter, Kyra, 

could become the recipient in her own right of survivors’ benefits as set forth in 

Section 307 of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (Act),

4 77 P.S. § 561.

See Kimberly Clark Corp. v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Bromley), 161 A.3d 446 

(Pa. Cmwlth. 2017); see also Fratta v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Austin Truck 

Rental), 892 A.2d 888, 893 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2006) (“[I]n situations where there is a 

fatal claim petition, the deceased employee is never a ‘claimant’. Rather, the people 

in the position of the ‘claimant’ are the dependents of the deceased employee.”).

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Employer ultimately accepted additional injuries as work-related, 

including “lower thoracic fragility spinal fractures, followed by T8-L1 bilateral 

pedicle screw replacement with rod fixation and allograft fusion”; however, 

Employer denied Claimant’s specific loss claim, maintaining that none of the 

4 Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §§ 1-1041.4, 2501-2710. Where there 

is no surviving spouse, children who are not yet legally independent are directly eligible for death 

benefits. 77 P.S. § 561; Anderson v. Borough of Greenville, 273 A.2d 512 (Pa. 1971). 

5 A fatal claim petition was filed here on July 15, 2017, but the WCJ ultimately deemed it 

“discontinued and withdrawn as moot” given the agreement by both sides that Claimant’s death 

was not due to her work-related injuries. F.F. 8 & Conclusion of Law 6; Appendix at B-6 & B21. 
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conditions it accepted caused the need for amputation of her lower right leg. F.F. 9; 

Appendix at B-7-8. 

After considering the evidence, the WCJ concluded that Claimant’s 

work-related injury included nearly all of her claimed conditions, including the 

ulcers in her right foot that “ultimately led to the amputation of [her] right leg.” F.F. 

29 & 31; Appendix at B-17-19. As such, the WCJ found the amputation of her lower 

right leg was compensable by 350 weeks of specific loss benefits as provided in 

Section 306(c)(5) of the Act, 77 P.S. § 513(5). F.F. 32; Appendix at B-19-20.

However, the WCJ also found as a matter of law that the specific loss 

benefits payable to Claimant’s daughter Kyra through the trust were subject to 

Employer’s subrogation rights and interests. Therefore, the 350 weeks of specific 

loss benefits were payable, beginning in the subrogated amount of $375.97 per week 

until Employer’s subrogation lien was fully satisfied, and thereafter in the original 

or full amount of $917.00 per week. See WCJ Decision, 11/1/18, Conclusion of Law 

(C.L.) 7; Appendix at B-21 & B-23. Both sides appealed to the Board, which in a 

February 7, 2020, decision and order affirmed the WCJ’s determination that as a 

matter of law, Employer’s subrogation rights and interests extended to the 350 weeks 

of specific loss benefits due to Kyra through Claimant’s estate.6 Board Decision, 

2/7/20, at 7-9; Appendix at A-7-9.

Trustee then petitioned for review in this Court. 

6 Employer’s appeal merely sought to clarify that the specific loss benefits were to be 

directed to Richard Kinzler as trustee of the trust established for Kyra, rather than in his capacity 

as executor of Claimant’s estate or as trustee for the trust established for Claimant’s care during 

her lifetime; that trust terminated with Claimant’s death and the funds became part of the corpus 

of the trust established for Kyra. Board Decision, 2/7/20, at 9; Appendix at A-9. This was not 

disputed by the Kinzlers and is not at issue in this appeal.
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II. Issue

On appeal,7 Trustee contends the Board erred in affirming the WCJ’s 

determination that Employer may pay the 350 weeks of specific loss benefits at the 

subrogation rate of $375.97 per week rather than the original full temporary total 

disability rate of $917.00 per week until Employer’s subrogation lien is satisfied. 

Trustee’s Brief at 23-30. Our determination of this issue requires consideration of 

the interplay between the workers’ compensation areas of specific loss benefits, 

subrogation, and fatal claims/heritability.

III. Discussion

A. Specific Loss Benefits

Specific loss benefits are set forth in Section 306(c) of the Act, 77 P.S. 

§ 513. They are awarded based on the injured worker’s average weekly wage, for 

durations ranging from 28 weeks for the loss of a little finger to 410 weeks for the 

loss of an entire arm or leg. 77 P.S. § 513. Specific loss benefits generally may not 

be collected concurrently with temporary total disability benefits; rather, they 

become payable once an injured worker’s temporary total disability compensation 

ends.8 See St. Joseph Hosp. v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Ladd), 725 A.2d 1287 

7 On appeal, this Court’s scope of review is limited to determining whether constitutional 

rights were violated, whether an error of law was committed and whether necessary findings of 

fact were supported by substantial evidence. Morocho v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Home 

Equity Renovations, Inc.), 167 A.3d 855, 858 n.4 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2017). On questions of law, our 

scope of review is plenary, and our standard of review is de novo. Edwards v. Workers’ Comp. 

Appeal Bd. (Epicure Home Care, Inc.), 134 A.3d 1156, 1161 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2016).

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If, however, the specific loss, although work-related, is found to be “separate and apart” 

from the injury giving rise to the temporary total disability, both types of benefits may be collected 

concurrently. Lindemuth v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Strishock Coal Co.), 134 A.3d 111 (Pa. 

Cmwlth. 2016). An example might be where an accident totally disables the worker due to a 

serious back injury, but the worker also sustains the loss of a small finger in the same accident.
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(Pa. Cmwlth. 1999); Richardson v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Am. Surfpak), 703 

A.2d 1069 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1997).

When a claimant’s death is from a cause other than the work injury, 

separate specific loss benefits for the permanent loss or loss of use of a body part, to 

which the claimant would have been entitled had she lived, are heritable by specified 

survivors under Section 306(g) of the Act. 77 P.S. § 541; Estate of Harris v. 

Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Sunoco, Inc. & ESIS/SIGNA), 845 A.2d 239, 244 (Pa. 

Cmwlth. 2004). 

B. Subrogation

Section 319 of the Act states that employers are “subrogated to the right 

of the employe” and entitled to recover costs paid out in workers’ compensation 

benefits where a third-party caused the employee’s injury. 77 P.S. § 671. “The 

statute is clear and unambiguous. It is written in mandatory terms and, by its terms, 

admits of no express exceptions, equitable or otherwise. . . . [I]t does more than 

confer a ‘right’ of subrogation upon the employer; rather, subrogation is automatic.” 

Thompson v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (USF&G Co.), 781 A.2d 1146, 1151 (Pa. 

2001). “[T]he rationale for this right of subrogation is threefold: to prevent double 

recovery for the same injury by the claimant, to ensure that the employer is not 

compelled to make compensation payments made necessary by the negligence of a 

third party, and to prevent a third party from escaping liability for his negligence.” 

Dale Mfg. Co. v. Bressi, 421 A.2d 653, 654 (Pa. 1980).

In addition to recouping wage loss and medical benefits paid to an

injured worker prior to a third-party settlement, the employer may also claim 

subrogation rights in the settlement funds as to anticipated future wage losses of the 
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injured worker, up to the value of the third-party settlement recovery. Whitmoyer v. 

Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Mountain Country Meats), 186 A.3d 947, 954-55 (Pa. 

2018); see 77 P.S. § 671. Thus, the employer is entitled to credit against future 

installments of benefits payable during the period of the injured worker’s disability,

to the extent that the third-party settlement exceeds compensation already paid as 

wage loss benefits; weekly benefits may be suspended or reduced until the employer 

has recouped the full amount of its subrogation lien. See Rollins Outdoor Advert. v. 

Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Maas), 487 A.2d 794, 798 (Pa. 1985).9

Here, based on the calculations on the workers’ compensation thirdparty settlement agreement form, Employer agreed to pay Claimant 41% of her

ongoing weekly wage loss benefits and apply the remaining 59% to Employer’s 

subrogation lien, thereby reducing her weekly benefits from the original figure of 

$917.00 to $375.97 until the subrogation lien was satisfied. R.R. at 45a. For the 

period from the settlement date through the date of Claimant’s death, the amounts 

due and paid under this arrangement are not in dispute. 

However, Employer’s subrogation lien was not fully satisfied at the 

time of Claimant’s death. R.R. at 44a-45a. The parties disagree concerning whether 

Employer’s subrogation rights extend to Claimant’s specific loss benefits, which 

were not yet payable at the time of her death, and which were not specifically 

addressed in the settlement agreement. Trustee’s Brief at 23-30; Employer’s Brief 

at 8-17. 

Our determination of this issue hinges on whether, after Claimant’s 

death from non-work-related causes, there is “equatability” between her pending 

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In exchange, the employer is obligated to pay a pro rata share of the counsel fees and 

expenses, termed “costs of recovery” incurred by the injured worker in securing the third-party 

settlement or verdict funds. Bell Tel. Co. v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Artuch), 562 A.2d 427, 

429 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1989).
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specific loss benefits and her third-party recovery funds. See Anderson v. Borough 

of Greenville, 273 A.2d 512, 515 (Pa. 1971) (see discussion of “equatability” in 

Section “C” below). If so, Employer retains its subrogation interest and may reduce

by the remaining lien amount the payments Kyra is due to inherit. See Reese by 

Reese v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Penn Nutrients, Inc.), 505 A.2d 405, 407

(Pa. Cmwlth. 1986) (equatability persists and subrogation is permitted). The WCJ 

concluded there was such equatability, and the Board affirmed. WCJ Decision,

11/1/18, C.L. 7; Appendix at B-21 & B-23; Board Decision, 2/7/20, at 7-9; Appendix 

at A-7-9. This narrow question is one of first impression for this Court.

C. Equatability

Our Supreme Court has explained the concept of “equatability” as 

follows:

The doctrine of subrogation . . . implies the need for some 

identity between the fund created by the insurance 

agreement and the fund created by the cause of action 

against the [third-party] tortfeasor. That is, there is 

implicit in subrogation an equatability between the 

obligation of the compensation payor and the obligation of 

the tortfeasor payor, so that the two funds are going to 

satisfy the same duty, liability or obligation to the same 

person.

Anderson, 273 A.2d at 515. In Anderson, the deceased claimant’s widow received 

standard (not specific loss) death benefits on behalf of herself and her children, and 

also secured a third-party settlement against the driver of the vehicle that struck and 

killed her husband, a police officer. Id. at 513. The employer pursued its 

subrogation interests, including a lien against the children’s independent shares of 
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both the workers’ compensation death benefits and the third-party recovery. Id. The 

Court concluded that to the extent the third-party recovery represented a wrongful 

death action on behalf of the children in their own right, any such funds were not 

equatable with the workers’ compensation payments their widowed mother received 

for their care; therefore, the workers’ compensation insurance carrier was not 

subrogated to the recovery received by the children in the wrongful death action. Id.

at 515. 

Thus, under Anderson, the equatability between benefits paid to the 

injured claimant and the third-party recovery based on the same cause of injury at 

the hands of a third party must persist after the claimant’s death in order for there to 

be a basis for ongoing subrogation against benefits paid to the claimant’s surviving 

family members. However, where, after the claimant’s death, surviving children 

become eligible for fatal claim benefits in their own right, rather than derivatively 

of the deceased claimant’s rights, the equatability that supports an employer’s right 

to post-mortem subrogation is broken. Compare Greater Lancaster Disposal/SCA 

Servs. v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Snook), 607 A.2d 334, 338-39 (Pa. Cmwlth. 

1992) (children attained an independent right to benefits; therefore, equatability did 

not persist and subrogation was not permitted) with Reese by Reese, 505 A.2d at 407

(children did not attain an independent right to benefits; therefore, equatability 

persisted and subrogation was permitted).

Section 306(c) of the Act governs specific loss benefits and describes 

them in its title and first sentence as “disability resulting from permanent injuries.” 

77 P.S. § 513.10 This Court has not previously considered whether temporary total 

10 The WCJ noted that “specific loss” is the preferred term of usage for these kinds of 

injuries, but does not itself appear in the Act, which “denominates discrete awards for amputated 

limbs as ‘disability resulting from permanent injuries[.]’” WCJ Decision 11/1/18, C.L. 7.
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disability and specific loss benefits are analogous for purposes of subrogation. 

However, in Romansky v. Shalala, 885 F. Supp. 129 (W.D. Pa. 1995), a federal 

district court considered “whether an award for a facial disfigurement is an award 

for a disability under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act” in the context 

of a Social Security Disability offset. Id. at 131.11 Although Romansky is a federal 

decision, the court relied on Pennsylvania’s specific loss statute, Section 306(c) of 

the Act, 77 P.S. § 513, and our Supreme Court’s analysis in Killian v. Heintz Division

Kelsey Hayes Co., 360 A.2d 620 (Pa. 1976), which concluded that specific loss

awards encompass “all disability emanating from or connected with the loss of a 

member or a permanent injury” to that body part. Romansky, 885 F. Supp. at 132 

(quoting Killian). 

The Romansky Court reasoned that the Act compensates for disabilities, 

whether they result in loss of earning power under Sections 306(a) and (b) or a 

presumed loss of earning power from permanent injuries, such as the loss of a body 

part or permanent disfigurement, under Section 306(c). Id. at 132-33. Because both 

temporary disability and specific loss payments are periodic benefits awarded on 

account of a disability, the Romansky Court found both types of benefits were subject 

to the Social Security Act’s offset provision at 42 U.S.C. § 424a. Id. at 133.

Trustee does not dispute as a general proposition that specific loss 

benefits are subject to subrogation in the same manner as total disability benefits. 

Here, however, he argues that any equatability ended with Claimant’s death, because 

although she was eligible for specific loss benefits, she ultimately was unable to 

11 Facial scarring and disfigurement are among the conditions encompassed by the specific 

loss provisions of the Act. See 77 P.S. § 513(22). Social Security offsets are similar in purpose 

to subrogation, in that both allow an employer to reduce benefits due to injured workers where 

certain conditions are met. See Murphy v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (City of Phila.), 871 A.2d 

312 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2005).
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personally receive those benefits. Trustee’s Brief at 28-30. Trustee reasons that 

because the third-party settlement went to Claimant alone, and Kyra had no claim to 

those funds during Claimant’s lifetime, Employer’s right to subrogation against 

those funds died with Claimant. Id. at 26, 29. Therefore, Trustee contends that

specific loss benefits for the loss of Claimant’s lower right leg similarly belong to 

Kyra in her own right and are not subject to the subrogation lien. Id. at 25-27, 30.

Trustee argues that as applied here, Anderson negates Employer’s right to

subrogation concerning the specific loss funds Kyra will inherit. Id. at 25-27, 30.

Similarly, Trustee argues that Romansky does not apply here because 

the specific loss benefits received by the injured worker in that case were paid out 

during his lifetime, which made the offset of those sums from his Social Security 

Disability benefits viable. Trustee’s Brief at 28-29. Trustee asserts that when a 

claimant receiving temporary total disability benefits dies and there are pending 

specific loss benefits that could not be collected by the injured worker during her 

lifetime, but become payable to a surviving child, the specific loss benefits “alter 

their character” and become analogous to workers’ compensation fatal claim

survivor benefits, which a surviving child may claim in her own right and which are

not subject to subrogation. Id.

We disagree with Trustee’s arguments. We find the Romansky Court’s 

analysis analogous and persuasive here and therefore conclude that specific loss 

benefits are subject to subrogation in the same manner as temporary total disability 

benefits.

Under Section 307 of the Act, 77 P.S. § 561, when a claimant receiving 

temporary total disability benefits dies from work-related causes, her death creates 

an independent right for dependent surviving children to claim survivors’ benefits. 
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See, e.g., Auto Service Councils of Pa. v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Compton),

590 A.2d 1355, 1358-59 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1991). The Act prescribes the computation 

and recipients of the survivors’ benefits, which are obtainable by filing a fatal claim 

petition on behalf of the surviving children. 77 P.S. § 561; Fratta, 892 A.2d at 893

(“[I]n situations where there is a fatal claim petition, the deceased employee is never 

a ‘claimant’. Rather, the people in the position of the ‘claimant’ are the dependents 

of the deceased employee.”). Once the children’s independent right and cause of 

action for fatal claim benefits become effective, equatability is broken and the 

employer’s right of subrogation is ended. See Anderson; Greater Lancaster 

Disposal/SCA Servs. It is as if the surviving dependent child inherited a sum of cash 

free and clear, to do with as she chooses. Importantly, by definition, fatal claim 

benefits are payable only to the claimant’s survivors, because the claimant herself 

never had any entitlement to the benefit funds at issue.

By contrast, under Section 306(g) of the Act, 77 P.S. § 541, when a 

claimant dies of a cause not related to her work injury, any specific loss benefits to 

which she was already entitled, but which she did not collect, are heritable. 77 P.S. 

§ 541; Estate of Harris, 845 A.2d at 244. Contrary to Trustee’s arguments, however,

a claimant’s death from non-work-related causes does not convert or “alter the 

character” of pending specific loss benefits into funds receivable by the surviving 

recipient in the survivor’s own right. In contrast to Section 319 of the Act, 77 P.S. 

§ 561, which states plainly that fatal claim compensation benefits are to be paid to 

dependent surviving children, Section 306(g), 77 P.S. § 541, provides: “Should the 

employe die from some other cause than the injury, payments of compensation to 

which the deceased would have been entitled to [sic] under [the specific loss 

provision] shall be paid to the [categories of survivors set forth in the statute].” 77 
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P.S. § 541 (emphasis added). Thus, such compensation is expressly not paid to the 

survivors in their own rights. The chain of equatability is therefore not broken and 

the employer’s right of subrogation survives the non-work-related death of the 

claimant. Reese by Reese. 

Accordingly, we find that the specific loss benefits Kyra inherited when 

Claimant died of non-work-related causes remain dependent on the obligations that 

Claimant was subject to, including Employer’s subrogation rights, based on the 

equatability of the third-party settlement funds and the workers’ compensation 

specific loss benefits to which Claimant became entitled, even if such benefits had 

not yet become payable during her lifetime.

IV. Conclusion

Based on the foregoing discussion, the WCJ and Board did not err in 

concluding as a matter of law that the specific loss benefits Kyra inherited are subject 

to Employer’s subrogation rights and interests. Therefore, Employer is entitled to

pay specific loss benefits at the rate of $375.97, rather than the full pre-subrogation 

amount of $917.00, until the remainder of the subrogation lien is satisfied. From 

that point forward, benefits will be payable at the full amount of $917.00 per week 

for the remainder of the 350 weeks of the specific loss benefit award.

Accordingly, the Board’s order is affirmed.

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CHRISTINE FIZZANO CANNON, Judge
IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Richard G. Kinzler, Trustee of a :

Trust for the Benefit of Kyra Kinzler, :

Petitioner :

:

v. :

:

Workers’ Compensation Appeal :

Board (Association for Vascular :

Access and Twin City Fire Insurance :

Company), : No. 165 C.D. 2020

Respondents :

O R D E R

AND NOW, this 6th day of January, 2021, the February 7, 2020, order 

of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board is hereby AFFIRMED.

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CHRISTINE FIZZANO CANNON, Judge