TRUMPIKAS v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

No. 410 C.D. 1979.

50 Pa.Commw. 130 (1980)

Stanley Trumpikas, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Muraca, with him Joseph R. Solfanelli, of Dolphin, Solfanelli & Butler, for petitioner.

Robert E. Kelly, Deputy Attorney General, with him Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorney General, and Edward G. Biester, Jr., Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued February 8, 1980, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, March 17, 1980:

This is an appeal from an adjudication and order of the Hearing and Appeals Unit of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) denying the claim of petitioner, as a DPW employee, under the Act of December 8, 1959, P.L. 1718, as amended (Act 534), 61 P.S. § 951, which provides, inter alia, that any employee of a state mental hospital "who is injured during the course of his employment by an act of any inmate or any person...

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