Bolinsky v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Senior Judge McCLOSKEY.

Rita Bolinsky (Claimant) appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which, inter alia, affirmed a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that Norristown State Hospital’s (Employer) contest of Claimant’s benefits was reasonable and thus denying her claim for attorney fees and costs. We affirm. 1

On August 8, 1978, Claimant, a psychiatric nurse, was injured by a patient and suffered an injury to her neck and upper extremities. In 1980, she endured a surgical spine fusion and had carpal tunnel surgeries in 1989 and 1990. In…