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

No. 621 C.D. 1977.

34 Pa.Commw. 618 (1978)

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, David K. Newman and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

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


OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, April 10, 1978:

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation has appealed from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board which affirmed the referee's award of workmen's compensation benefits to David K. Newman.

Newman was awarded benefits beginning December 27, 1974 for permanent and total disability caused by coal workers' pneumoconiosis. The referee's determination that Newman became totally disabled as of that date was based...

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