USX Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

CRAIG, President Judge.

USX Corporation appeals a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming a decision of a referee concerning subrogation rights of USX to a third-party settlement secured by Mildred Backos, widow of claimant Rudolph Backos. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

*61The issues in this case are whether the referee and board (1) properly calculated USX’s grace period, (2) erred in ordering USX to pay its proportionate share of costs to the claimant’s widow over the grace period, (3) erred in ordering USX to continue to pay to claimant’s widow attorney’s fees owed…