Court Opinion

ID: 9728410
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:07:18.588297+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:48.450676
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice,
Concurring.
Indeed, as stated in the dissent authored by Mr. Justice Zappala, “... the majority would seemingly require a claimant to know absolutely the causal relationship between an injury and its work relatedness ...” I cannot join in that view. On this record the claimant suspected, but did not know of the possible causal connection between her symptoms and the work environment. Suspicion of a possible causality is less than knowledge of it. The record clearly demonstrates a reasonably diligent effort by claimant to ascertain whether her suspicion had medical foundation, eventuating in a medical confirmation of her suspicion on August 31, 1993. I, thus, concur in the result, but not entirely in the rationale as expressed by the majority.
Justice SAYLOR joins this concurring opinion.