A. RIFKIN CO. v. WORK. COMP. APPEAL BD. ET AL.

No. 55 C.D. 1977.

34 Pa.Commw. 476 (1978)

A. Rifkin Company, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Joseph Sevitski, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Lenahan, Jr., with him Joseph A. Murphy, and Lenahan, Dempsey & Murphy, for petitioner.

Joseph P. Coviello, with him Dunn, Byrne & Coviello, and James N. Diefenderfer, for respondents.

Argued March 2, 1978, before Judges CRUMISH, JR., ROGERS and DISALLE, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, March 30, 1978:

The A. Rifkin Company (Rifkin) has appealed from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which vacated a referee's decision to deny benefits to the claimant, Joseph Sevitski, and remanded the case to the referee for further consideration consistent with the Board's opinion.

While working at his desk as a plant manager for Rifkin, Joseph Sevitski suffered what was later diagnosed as a heart attack...

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