Holford v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff, Lillian R. Holford, appeals by leave granted from a denial of compensation benefits by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) which reversed an earlier award of workers’ compensation benefits by an administrative law judge.

At a hearing conducted on November 11, 1977, the administrative law judge found that plaintiff, an employee of General Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1972, was entitled to compensation benefits because of a disability arising in the course of her employment. In reversing the holding of the administrative law judge, the WCAB, in its controlling opinion,…