Department of Public Welfare v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer’s refusal to abide by a stipulation approved by the WCJ constituted a violation of the Act that precluded a finding of a reasonable contest, thereby rendering an award of penalties proper
• explaining that “[t]he courts have held consistently that under the doctrine of judicial estoppel a party may be prevented from ‘playing fast and loose’ with the court and abusing the judicial process by changing positions as the moment requires”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).