Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Czepurnyj

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is a direct administrative appeal. The Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of Pennsylvania (Board) reversed a referee’s award of compensation for total disability and acknowledged the employer’s right to subrogation of the amount paid to a claimant under a non-occupational insurance plan in these peculiar circumstances.

*307On November 20, 1972, Stefan Czepurnyj (Appellant) filed a claim petition under the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §1 et seq., alleging that an accident in the course of his…