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CAIRNBROOK COAL CO. ET AL. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1411 C.D. 1976.

30 Pa.Commw. 620 (1977)

Cairnbrook Coal Company and Old Republic Companies, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Andrew G. Vrabel, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. McDowell, with him Hirsch, Weise & Tillman, for petitioner.

Timothy P. Creany, with him James N. Diefenderfer, and Mary Ellen Krober, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.

David A. Ody, Assistant Attorney General, for Commonwealth.

Argued May 6, 1977, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR. and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, June 21, 1977:

This is an appeal by Cairnbrook Coal Company (employer) from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee's order directing the employer to pay an appearance fee to a claimant's physician who testified at a hearing before the referee.

Andrew Vrabel (claimant) filed a claim petition for compensation for coal worker's pneumoconiosis with the Bureau of Occupational Injury and Disease Compensation...

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