Beissel v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

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• holding that if, after having full opportunity to investigate a claim, an employer recognizes a specific injury in an NCP, it may not challenge causation at a later date because it already admitted liability
• holding that if, after having full opportunity to investigate a claim, an employer recognizes a specific injury in an NCP, it may not challenge causation at a later date because it already admitted liability
• holding that an employer that has admitted liability for a work-related injury by means of an NCP after having full opportunity to investigate the claim may not subsequently challenge causation of injury absent evidence that the NCP is materially incorrect
• stating that an NCP “amounts to an admission by the employer of the claimant’s employment, the occurrence of the accident, and the nature of the injuries caused by the accident while the claimant was in the employ of the employer”
• filing notice of compensation payable after investigating cause of disability constitutes admission of employer’s liability
• stating that in cases where an agreement or notice of compensation payable has been filed, to terminate the employer’s liability, the employer has the burden of showing that an independent cause of the disability arose after the filing of the notice of compensation payable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).