CABLE v. W.C.A.B.


541 Pa. 611 (1995)

664 A.2d 1349

Kenneth CABLE, Appellee v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (GULF OIL/CHEVRON USA, INC.), Appellant

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B. Marshall, for Gulf Oil.

Michael L. Murphy, for K. Cable.

Norman R. Haigh, for W.C.A.B.

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


OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

This appeal involves the statutory construction of the limitations period for occupational disease under the workers' compensation law, specifically raising the question whether the manifestation of the disease must occur within three hundred weeks after exposure to the hazard or within three hundred weeks after employment in the occupation in which the exposure occurred. This is the...

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