Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Mushroom Transportation Co.

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

This is an appeal by Mushroom Transportation Company and Royal Indemnity Company (appellants) from an order and opinion of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s order which had dismissed appellants’ termination petition for the total disability of Anthony Trangle (Trangle). We affirm.

The pertinent facts in this case reveal that, on March 8, 1971, Trangle, while in the scope of his employment in New York, fell on ice and snow and injured his hip.1 An open compensation agreement was entered into whereby Trangle was paid compensation…