Rob was successful in defending a claim for consequential injuries (injuries that were not directly caused by the accident, but developed later as a result of the original injury). The Commonwealth Court held on January 8, 2025 in Matthew Grow v. PECO Energy Company, No. 63 C.D. 2024, that the Claimant has three years from the last payment of compensation to file the claim.  Claimant  injured his neck in 2013.  He underwent surgery and returned to work in January of 2014.  PECO accepted the claim narrowly for C3-4 fractures.  Several years later, Claimant underwent a second fusion at the different location.   The WCJ granted Review and Reinstatement Petitions based on the medical expert’s testimony that the instability due to the surgery caused problems at the higher, C6-7 area, several years later.  Claimant filed his petitions in 2021, seven years after the last payment of compensation, but still within the 500 weeks.  The Judge found that the new injury was related and rejected our statute of limitations defense, finding that since the petitions were filed within 500 weeks they were timely.   The WCAB reversed the decision, finding that the plain language of the statute was clear.  The Commonwealth Court agreed, affirming the decision and rejecting the argument that the humanitarian nature of the Act should result in an allowance of a petition under these circumstances.