OKNEFSKI v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 2915 C.D. 1980.

63 Pa.Commw. 450 (1981)

Frederic Oknefski, Widower and Administrator of the Estate of Cindy Oknefski, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Louisiana Pacific Corp., Respondents. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, Intervenor.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Whitney, Cartwright, Fernan & Whitney, for petitioner.

Joseph F. Grochmal, Fried, Kane, Waters & Zuschlag, for respondent, Louisiana Pacific Corp.

Michael L. Harvey, Deputy Attorney General, with him Allen C. Warshaw and Mary Ellen Krober, Deputy Attorneys General, for intervenor.

Argued October 8, 1981, before Judges MENCER, WILLIAMS, JR. and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE PALLADINO, December 29, 1981:

Petitioner-widower appeals from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee's decision denying Petitioner-widower death benefits pursuant to Section 307 of The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 562.

The facts as found by the referee, and...

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