REPUBLIC STEEL CORP. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

Nos. 1362 and 1901 C.D. 1977.

43 Pa.Commw. 480 (1979)

Republic Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Frank Troyak and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents. Republic Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Blaine Helman and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. McFarland, with him Ralph A. Davis and Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, for petitioners.

Benjamin L. Costello and Sandra S. Christianson, Assistant Attorney General, with them, J. Scott Leckie and Kenneth J. Yablonski, for respondents.

Argued October 30, 1978, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., MENCER and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, June 22, 1979:

Republic Steel Corporation (employer) appeals here from separate orders of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board), awarding compensation for coal worker's pneumoconiosis to two former employees, Frank Troyak and Blaine Helman. Because both appeals raise the same issue of law, they were consolidated for argument. We affirm the Board in both cases.

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