JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP. v. KREON ET AL.

No. 884 C.D. 1976.

28 Pa.Commw. 373 (1977)

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Joseph J. Kreon, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond F. Keisling, with him Will & Keisling, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Krober, Assistant Attorney General, with her David A. Ody, Assistant Attorney General, and James N. Diefenderfer, for appellees.

Argued October 29, 1976, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., ROGERS and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, January 28, 1977:

Joseph J. Kreon filed a claim petition for workmen's compensation benefits alleging total disability beginning August 15, 1974. He further alleged that his disability occurred because of anthraco-silicosis suffered as a result of forty-seven years of coal mining. After a hearing on the claim, a referee awarded benefits, fifty percent to be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and fifty percent by Jones & Laughlin Steel...

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