HEBDEN v. W.C.A.B. (BETHENERGY MINES)


534 Pa. 327 (1993)

632 A.2d 1302

Thomas HEBDEN, Appellant, v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (BETHENERGY MINES, INC.), Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 12, 1993.

Reargument Denied January 11, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair V. Pawlowski, Pawlowski, Creany, Tulowitzki, Bilonick & Walter, Ebensburg, for appellant.

John J. Bagnato, Spence, Custer, Saylor, Wolfe & Rose, Johnstown, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY and MONTEMURO, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

Appellant, Thomas Hebden, a coal miner for over thirty years, was awarded workmen's compensation partial disability benefits for an occupationally acquired pulmonary lung disease (coal worker's pneumoconiosis) by order of a referee dated July 19, 1985. Effective as of August 25, 1983, Appellant was ordered to receive $227.40 per week as compensation. Neither Appellant nor his employer appealed this award. It...

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