Case Name: SIX L'S PACKING COMPANY and Its Claims Administrator, Broadspire Services, Inc., Petitioners v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (WILLIAMSON), Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2011-07-14
Citations: 24 A.3d 859
Docket Number: 
Parties: SIX L’S PACKING COMPANY and Its Claims Administrator, Broadspire Services, Inc., Petitioners v. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (WILLIAMSON), Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 24
Pages: 859–859

Head Matter:
SIX L’S PACKING COMPANY and Its Claims Administrator, Broadspire Services, Inc., Petitioners v. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (WILLIAMSON), Respondents.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
July 14, 2011.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 14th day of July, 2011, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the following issues, as framed by Petitioners:
Whether a claimant must meet the five part test articulated by the Supreme Court in the seminal case of McDonald v. Levinson Steel Co., 302 Pa. 287, 153 A. 424 (1930) to establish "statutory employer" status!?]
Whether an owner of property can be a "statutory employer," under the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act and existing case law, in the face of 80 years of precedent finding the contrary!?]
Allocatur is denied as to the remaining issue.