77 Pa. Stat. § 1528
Whenever the employer, who has accepted and complied with the provisions of section three hundred five, shall be in default in compensation payments for thirty days or more, the employe or dependents entitled to compensation thereunder may file a certified copy of the agreement and the order of the board approving the same, or of the award or order, with the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of any county, and the prothonotary shall enter the entire balance payable under the agreement, award or order to be payable to the employe or his dependents, as a judgment against the employer or other party liable under such agreement or award. Where the compensation so payable is for a total and permanent disability, the judgment shall be in the amount of thirty thousand dollars less such amount as the employer shall have actually paid pursuant to such agreement or award. Such judgment shall be a lien against property of the employer or other party liable under such agreement or award, and execution may issue thereon forthwith.
Wherever, after disability or death, any employe or his dependents shall have entered into a compensation agreement with an employer liable for compensation under this act, who has not accepted or complied with the provisions of section three hundred five, or shall file a claim petition with the board against such employer, he may file a certified copy thereof with the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of any county. The prothonotary shall enter the amount stipulated in any such agreement or claimed in any such petition as a judgment against the employer, and where the amount so stipulated or claimed is for total disability, such judgment shall be in the sum of thirty thousand dollars. If the agreement be approved by the department, or compensation awarded as claimed in the petition, the amount of compensation stipulated in the agreement or claimed in the petition shall be a lien, as of the date when the agreement or petition was filed with the prothonotary. Pending the approval of the agreement or the award of compensation, no other lien which may be attached to the employer's property during such time shall gain priority over the lien of such agreement or award, but no execution shall issue on any compensation judgment before the approval of the agreement or the award of compensation on the said petition.
If the agreement be disapproved, or, after hearing, compensation shall be disallowed, the employer may file, with the prothonotary of any county in which the petition or agreement is on record as a judgment, a certified copy of the disapproval of the agreement or disallowance of compensation, and it shall be the duty of such prothonotary to strike off the judgment.
If the amount of compensation claimed be disallowed, but another amount awarded, the compensation judgment shall be a lien to the extent of the award, as of the date of filing the petition with the prothonotary, with the same effect as to other liens and the same disability to issue execution thereon as if the compensation claimed had been allowed. In such cases the prothonotary shall make such modification of the record as shall be appropriate.
If the compensation payable under any agreement or award upon which judgment has been entered under the provisions of this section shall be modified, suspended, reinstated, or terminated by a supplemental agreement executed under the provisions of section four hundred and eight, or by an award or order made under the provisions of section four hundred and thirteen, any party to such judgment, at any time after such agreement has been approved by the department or after the expiration of the time allowed for an appeal from the award or order, may file with the prothonotary of the court of common pleas of any county in which the judgment is on record a certified copy of such supplemental agreement, award, or order, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the prothonotary to modify, suspend, reinstate, or satisfy such judgment in accordance with the terms of such supplemental agreement, award or order.
Execution may issue by first filing with the prothonotary an affidavit that there has been a default in payments of compensation due on any judgment for compensation, entered prior to the approval of the compensation agreement, or an award on petition, as soon as such agreement shall have been approved by the department, or such award made as evidenced by the approval of the board of the award or by a certified copy thereof.
Execution shall in all cases be for the amount of compensation and interest thereon due and payable up to the date of the issuance of said execution, with costs, and further execution may issue from time to time as further compensation shall become due and payable, until full amount of the judgment with costs shall have actually been paid.
77 P.S. § 1528