EVON v. W. C. A. B. (U.S. STEEL CORP. ET AL.).

No. 1902 C.D. 1980 and 1917 C.D. 1980.

70 Pa.Commw. 325 (1982)

Goldie Evon, Widow of Paul, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (U.S. Steel Corporation and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), Respondents. Marian Gannon, Widow of Michael, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (U.S. Steel Corporation and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 10, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence R. Chaban, with him J. Scott Leckie and Kenneth J. Yablonski, for petitioners.

Louis A. Raimond, for respondent, U.S. Steel Corporation.

Richard F. Faux, with him James D. Strader, and Lisa Roth, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Argued June 4, 1981, before Judges MENCER, CRAIG and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three. Reargued June 8, 1982, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges ROGERS, BLATT, WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL and DOYLE.


OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, December 10, 1982:

We consolidated for argument the appeals of Goldie Evon and Marian Gannon from orders of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board overturning referees' decisions awarding them compensation on fatal claim petitions in which they alleged that their husbands' deaths resulted from work-related coal workers'1 pneumoconiosis. The issue in each case is

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