Medical cannabis costs incurred in Pennsylvania as a result of work-related injuries are eligible for reimbursement, a state court ruled.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court sided with the plaintiffs on Friday in two separate cases, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
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In each case, the plaintiff’s “claims were denied and the appeals board upheld those denials,” the newspaper reported, “but the Commonwealth Court reversed the appeals boards’ decisions.”
In one case, the court ruled that the state Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board erred in allowing Firestone Tire & Rubber to deny reimbursement for medical marijuana costs for the plaintiff, Paul Sheetz.
Sheetz started using medical marijuana to treat chronic pain from a 1977 work injury and to ween off decades of prescribed opioid use, according to court documents and media reports.
He died before the Commonwealth Court ruled on his case, so Sheetz’s estate continued his court fight.
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