1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. Pa.Commw.
  4. 38 Pa.Commw.
  5. 38 Pa.Commw. 453 (1978)
 

DEPT. OF LABOR & IND. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1811 C.D. 1977.

38 Pa.Commw. 453 (1978)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor & Industry, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Bethlehem Mines Corporation and Mildred Cehelnik, w/o Joseph, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Christianson, Assistant Attorney General, with her Mary Ellen Krober, Assistant Attorney General, for petitioner.

Blair V. Pawlowski and John J. Bagnato, with them Spence, Custer, Saylor, Wolfe & Rose, and James N. Diefenderfer, for respondents.

Argued September 15, 1978, before Judges MENCER, BLATT and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, November 13, 1978:

The Commonwealth appeals here from a Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) award of death benefits to Mildred Cehelnik, the widow of an employee of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation (employer) who died on February 16, 1976 as a result of coal worker's pneumoconiosis. The referee and the Board apportioned the liability for the award at twenty-five percent (25%) for the Commonwealth and seventy-five percent (75%), for the...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases