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

No. 1097 C.D. 1978.

54 Pa.Commw. 113 (1980)

Republic Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Ira V. Leasure and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linton L. Moyer, of Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, for petitioner.

John M. Campfield, with him William J. Ober, of Scales & Shaw, and William C. O'Toole, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued March 8, 1979, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and DiSALLE, sitting as a panel of three. Reargued March 11, 1980, before President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS, CRAIG, MacPHAIL and WILLIAMS, JR. Judge BLATT did not participate.

OPINION BY JUDGE WILLIAMS, JR., October 1, 1980:

This is an appeal by Republic Steel Corporation (Republic) from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board affirming a referee's award of compensation to respondent Ira V. Leasure (claimant) for total disability due to coal miner's pneumoconiosis or "black lung."1

The claimant was employed by various coal mining companies...

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