ALLEGHENY L. S. CORP. v. W.C.A.B. (FISHER)

No. 897 C.D. 1984.

91 Pa.Commw. 480 (1985)

Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Fisher), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond F. Keisling, Will & Keisling, for petitioner.

Richard A. Weisbord, Weisbord & Weisbord, P.C., for respondent, Betty Jane Fisher.

Argued June 3, 1985, before Judges CRAIG and MacPHAIL, and Senior Judge KALISH, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, September 4, 1985:

Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation (Employer) brings this appeal from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed the referee's award of benefits to Betty Jane Fisher (Claimant) as a result of the death of her husband, Somerton Fisher (Decedent).1

Decedent died on July 22, 1975, as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It appears that Decedent...

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