Court Opinion

ID: 9695864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:30:33.222582+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:16:02.199439
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice
(concurring).
I join the Opinion of the Court, but believe that Mauchline v. State Insurance Fund, 279 Pa. 524, 124 A.2d 168 (1924), should be explicitly overruled. Since the decision of Mauchline a half-century ago, the developments, both statutory and decisional, in the law of Workmen’s Compensation have been steadily away from the restrictive construction there applied to the Act. Consequently, the authority of Mauchline has been steadily eroded and it is clear to me that it has now been implicitly overruled. The orderly and effective administration of the Workmen’s Compensation Act and the prompt and correct determination of claims under the Act would best be advanced by declaring specifically that the doctrine of Mauchline should no longer be followed.
MANDERINO, J., joins in this concurring opinion.