Pennsylvania: Home Caretaker’s Duties Fell Within Domestic Service Exception

Where a caretaker’s primary responsibilities while working for a woman suffering from mild dementia were to get the woman ready for bed and make sure she stayed in bed throughout the evening, those duties fell within the domestic service exception of the Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act [77 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 676] and the caretaker’s claim for benefits resulting from a work-related injury were not compensable, held a Pennsylvania appellate court.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

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See Van Leer v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd., 2019 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 191 (Feb. 27, 2019)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 72.03.

Source:Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law