Claws Refuse, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

LORD, Senior Judge.

Claws Refuse, Ine. appeals an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to grant benefits to Altana Mary Squires for a limited period of time under Section 307(5) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act),1 77 P.S. § 561(5), but modifying that order so that Squires’ benefits would extend into the indefinite future.

Squires filed a fatal claim petition alleging she was dependent upon her son, Nicholas Squires (decedent), at the time of his work-related death on December 21, 1989. Claws Refuse filed an answer admitting…