United States Steel Mining Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Senior Judge MIRARCHI.

United States Steel Mining Company, LLC (Employer) petitions this Court for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a decision of a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) that granted the fatal claim petition of Nancy Sullivan (Claimant) for the work-related death of her husband Thomas Sullivan, Jr. (Decedent). We affirm.

In a 1985 workers’ compensation decision, it was determined that Decedent, then living, established that he became partially disabled as a result of contracting an occupational disease, namely…