GLOBE SEC. SYSTEMS CO. v. W.C.A.B.


518 Pa. 544 (1988)

544 A.2d 953

GLOBE SECURITY SYSTEMS CO. and National Union Fire Insurance Company, Appellants, v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (Jorge GUERRERO, Deceased; Roberta Guerrero, Widow), Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Long, Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, Fred Trenor, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Barbara Behrend Ernsberger, Behrend, Moran, Ernsberger and Tamilia, Pittsburgh, Thomas J. Magrann, Secretary Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Harrisburg, for appellees.

Before LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and STOUT, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

STOUT, Justice.

This is an appeal by Globe Security Systems Company and National Union Fire Insurance Company from the award of fatal claims benefits, arising from suicide, under section 301(a) of the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act, Pa.Stat.Ann. tit. 77, § 431 (Purdon 1952 & Supp. 1987). See Globe Sec. Sys. Co. v. Workmen's Comp. Appeal Bd., 103 Pa.Commw. 384,

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