Smith v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,. Before this Court in this workmens compensation case is the appeal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from an order of the Common Pleas Court of Greene County which affirmed an order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) in affirming a referees order requiring the Commonwealth to pay disability benefits for an occupational disease only under Section 301(g) of The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act (OD Act).1 The disability involved is from coal workers pneumoconiosis which is one of the enumerated diseases made compensable under the provisions…