Mellow Appointee Confirmed by Full Senate

            HARRISBURG, February 2 – Democratic Leader Robert Mellow (Lackawanna/Luzerne/Monroe) is pleased to announce that the reappointment of Robert T. McIntyre to the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board received unanimous approval from the Senate today.
 
            “Robert McIntyre has served on the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board for over a decade,” said Mellow. “His background and insight make him a very valuable asset. It is a benefit to all parties involved to have somebody with Robert McIntyre’s experience on the board. Pennsylvania businesses and working men and women can be assured they will receive fair treatment.”
 
            A Scranton native, McIntyre has served as Administrator for the Governor’s Arbitration Panels for Health Care, President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and Executive Vice President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. He holds a number of other relevant affiliations and board memberships. The decorated Korean War veteran is a graduate of Scranton Central High School.
 
            Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board’s main function is the adjudication of appeals from the decisions of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Judges (WCJ). In addition to its appellate work, the Board receives and determines petitions for counsel fees, petitions for rehearings, miscellaneous requests, commutations, and petitions for supersedeas (both before the Board and Commonwealth Court). Most of these latter petitions can be decided on the petition and answer alone, without argument, although some cases do require a hearing before the Board or referral to a WCJ for the purpose of making findings of fact.

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