UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH v. PERLMAN

No. 2957 C.D. 1978.

49 Pa.Commw. 347 (1979)

University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company, Petitioners v. Marla Perlman, Widow of Lawrence V. Perlman, Deceased, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 11, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard P. Kane, Jr., with him, Fried, Kane, Walters & Zuschlag, for petitioners.

Jerome M. Libenson, with him, Baskin & Sears, for respondents.

Argued May 11, 1979, before Judges BLATT, DiSALLE and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three. Reargued February 5, 1980, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., ROGERS, BLATT, MacPHAIL and WILLIAMS, JR. Judges MENCER and CRAIG did not participate.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, September 11, 1979:

The University of Pittsburgh (employer) and its insurer appeal from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee's decision awarding benefits to Marla Perlman (claimant) for the death of her husband (decedent).

The decedent, a medical doctor, was employed as the director of the employer's Falk Clinic, as a coordinator of its ambulatory health care program, and as a professor...

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