CITY OF ALTOONA ET AL. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1867 C.D. 1978.

50 Pa.Commw. 178 (1980)

City of Altoona and Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and John P. Mirobelli and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan R. Krier, of Jubelirer, Carothers, Krier & Halpern, for petitioners.

Thomas G. Peoples, Jr., for respondent.

Argued December 3, 1979, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., BLATT and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, March 14, 1980:

The City of Altoona and the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company (petitioners) appeal here from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) upholding a referee's award of disability benefits to John P. Mirobelli (claimant).

The claimant had been employed until 1976 by the City of Altoona as a fireman and had a history of heart trouble beginning in October of 1972 when he suffered...

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