A Philadelphia police officer who was severely beaten by a robbery suspect in 2017 has won his right to add a psychological injury to his already settled workers’ compensation claim for physical injuries suffered in the incident.
The officer’s employer, the city of Philadelphia, had opposed the officer’s post-traumatic stress disorder claim on res judicata grounds that the prior agreed-upon work injury description, already amended once by the officer, precluded him from again amending it to add a mental health injury because the claim had already been resolved.
However, the Commonwealth Court found that his