National Minerals & North River Insurance v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Barbieri,

National Minerals and its insurance carrier, the North River Insurance Company (Petitioners), appeal here from an opinion and order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee ’s dismissal of their petition to set aside a notice of compensation payable. We reverse and remand.

Bernard Thomas, an employee of National Minerals, was injured on September 22,1979, when a tractor trailer he was driving jacknifed on a road in Virginia. Since Mr. Thomas was disabled by injuries he sustained in this accident, Petitioners began to pay him total…