HARTZELL v. W.C.A.B. (BMY)

No. 2980 C.D. 1985.

101 Pa.Commw. 137 (1986)

515 A.2d 1009

George Hartzell, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Bowen McLaughlin, York Div.), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 1, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Reihart, Laucks & Monroe, for petitioner.

W. Jeffrey Sidebottom, Barley, Snyder, Cooper & Barber, for respondents.

Argued September 11, 1986, before Judges CRAIG, COLINS and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, October 1, 1986:

Does an expert medical opinion that the claimant has fully recovered and may return to his pre-injury employment constitute substantial competent evidence to uphold the referee's termination of benefits where the physician, based upon a physical examination of the claimant, first opined that the disability continued, but changed his diagnosis after viewing a surveillance...

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