Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part VII - Workers' Compensation Appeal Board › Chapter 111 - SPECIAL RULES OF ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE BEFORE THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 111.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) The following
				  words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless
				  the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act
-The Workers' Compensation Act
					 (77
					 P. S. §§
												1- 1041.4 and
					 2501-2708).
Appeal
-A proceeding to review a ruling or
					 decision by a judge.
Board
-The Workers' Compensation Appeal
					 Board.
Disease Law
-The Pennsylvania Occupational
					 Disease Act (77 P. S. §§
												1201-1603).
Filing
-Filing is deemed complete upon one
					 of the following:
(i) Delivery in
				  person.
(ii) If by electronic
				  submission, upon receipt and in a format as prescribed by the Department and
				  published in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin
or the Department's web
				  site located at
www.dli.state.pa.us
.
(iii) If by mail, upon deposit in the United
				  States mail, properly addressed, postage or charges prepaid, as evidenced by
				  one of the following:
(A) United States Postal
				  Service postmark.
(B) United States
				  Postal Service Certificate of Mailing (USPS Form 3817 or other similar United
				  States Postal Service form from which the date of deposit can be verified),
				  enclosed with the filing or submitted separately to the Department.
(iv) An appeal may be delivered by
				  a common carrier of property which is subject to the authority of the
				  Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or the United States National Surface
				  Transportation Board. The date of filing is the date the document was delivered
				  to the common carrier, as established by a document or other record prepared by
				  the common carrier in the normal course of business. If the date of delivery to
				  the common carrier cannot be determined by the documents in the record, the
				  date of filing will be the date of its receipt by the Board.
Judge
-A workers' compensation judge
					 assigned by the Office of Adjudication as provided in section 401 of the act
					 (77
					 P. S. §
												701) or assigned by the Office
					 of Adjudication to determine a petition filed under the Disease Law.
Office of Adjudication
-The Office of the
					 Department created under section 1401(a) of the act (77 P. S. §
												2501(a)).
Party
-A petitioner or respondent. An act
					 required or authorized by this chapter, to be done by or to a party, may be
					 done by or to that party's counsel of record.
Petitioner
-Anyone seeking to review a
					 ruling or decision by a judge or the moving party in a petition filed under
					 Subchapter D (relating to other petitions).
Respondent
-Anyone in whose favor the
					 matter was decided by the judge or other than the moving party in any petition
					 filed under Subchapter.
Service
-Delivery in person, by mail or
					 electronics. If service is by mail, it is deemed complete upon deposit in the
					 United States mail, as evidenced by a United States Postal Service postmark,
					 properly addressed, with postage or charges prepaid.
Supersedeas
-A temporary stay affecting a
					 workers' compensation case.