NOVAK v. MATHIES COAL COMPANY ET AL.

No. 915 C.D. 1976.

29 Pa.Commw. 122 (1977)

Zigmund Novak v. Mathies Coal Company, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board. Mathies Coal Company, Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Schmidt, with him Andrew Rose, and Rose, Schmidt and Dixon, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Krober, Assistant Attorney General, with her James N. Diefenderfer, for appellees.

Argued February 4, 1977, before Judges KRAMER, ROGERS and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, March 4, 1977:

Mathies Coal Company (Mathies) appeals to this Court from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed1 the referee's award of total disability benefits to Zigmund Novak, a former Mathies employe.

Benefits were awarded to Novak beginning July 2, 1974 for total disability caused by coal workers' pneumoconiosis...

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