Court Opinion

ID: 9752077
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 17:33:22.429624+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:27:06.541446
License: Public Domain

SILVESTRI, Senior Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the facts and procedural aspects of the case as set forth by the majority and will not allude thereto further. Although I agree that the order of the Commission is in error, I would reverse the order and remand for further proceeding; further, I would not address the claim for attorney’s fees and costs except to note that such claim is not properly before us.
Act 632 is clear, unequivocal and unambiguous and for its effective administration requires no analogy to The Workmen’s Compensation Act and cases decided thereunder. Under Act 632 there is only one way to terminate benefits. The Act provides that when an employee is being paid his/her full salary as the result of an injury during the course of his employment by an act of any inmate, etc., payment of the full salary shall continue until the disability resulting from such injury no longer prevents his/her return at a salary equal to that earned at the time of the disabling injury. The propriety of the initial determination as to injury, disability and the payment of full salary is of no moment in the determination of whether the payments of full salary is to continue or be terminated. Further, since the language of Act 632 only authorizes discontinuance of salary payments under the conditions stated therein, there is no middle ground, i.e., either the full salary continues or is terminated.