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REED v. COM., W.C.A.B.

499 Pa. 177 (1981)

452 A.2d 997

Mary E. REED, Widow of James T. Reed, Appellant v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD and Stork Diaper Service, Inc., Appellee. Ruth DUMAS, Widow of Louis Dumas, Deceased, Appellant v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD and Latrobe Forge & Spring, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 23, 1981.

Reargument Granted May 10, 1982.

Reargued September 20, 1982.

Decided December 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin H. Beachler, McArdle, Caroselli, Spagnolli & Beachler, Pittsburgh, for appellant at No. 31.

David F. Kaliner (Deceased), Edward B. Joseph, Philadelphia, for appellant at No. 797.

Clem R. Kyle, Mary J. McCrory, Kyle & Ehrman, Pittsburgh, for Latrobe Forge and Spring.

Louis L. Kaplan, Harrisburg, Secretary, W.C.A.B., for appellee at No. 31.

Lowell A. Reed, Jr., Philadelphia, for Stork Diaper Services, Inc., for appellees at No. 797.

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

These cases present a question of first impression under the Workmen's Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 1 et seq.: Whether an employe's right to receive specific loss compensation rather than total disability compensation after the loss of "both hands or both arms or both feet or both legs or both eyes" within the meaning of 77 P.S. §...

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