Pumpelly v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

This aggravation claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act comes to us in a peculiar posture. The referee denied the aggravation claim on the ground that claimant had not shown any worsening of her condition subsequent to the last award of compensation in March, 1976, but concluded that claimant is entitled to receive medical services because her present symptoms were shown to have been medically related to her original 1973 compensable injury. The Board affirmed the denial of the aggravation claim, but reversed the referee’s determination that claimant was entitled to medical services. We…