MARY ANN PROTZ v. WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD DERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT (2017)

CONCURRING OPINION

I support the core legal analysis contained in the majority opinion. At least in the absence of some sort of ongoing legislative or administrative review or oversight, I agree that prospective medical texts cannot be incorporated into a scheme affecting citizens' substantial rights. My differences with the majority opinion are more a matter of approach than substance, as, for example, I find it unnecessary to even consider that the American Medical Association might concoct anything, see Majority Opinion, slip op. at 10, or that the General Assembly may have acted on an avoidance rationale, see id. at 13 n.6.

CHIEF JUSTICE SAYLOR