Bowlaway Lanes & Westmoreland Casualty Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Bowlaway Lanes appeals here from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s decision holding Bowlaway Lanes liable for workmen’s compensation benefits payable to Joseph L. Caparosa (claimant), and which also dismissed the Eleventh Frame Lounge, a previous employer of the claimant, as a party to these proceedings.

The record indicates that the claimant suffered a work-related injury in 1975 while in the employ of the Eleventh Frame Lounge. Following this injury, he underwent two operations which resulted in the replacement of his…