General v. E. Roseman Co.

Opinion by

Judge Kramer,

This is an appeal by George General1 from a portion of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, dated February 15, 1973, which offset a $7,000 payment by the E. Roseman Company against General’s workmen’s compensation benefits. General maintains that the agreement under which the $7,000 was paid to him was illegal under section 407 of the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act,2 and that, as a result, the offset ordered by the Board was in error. We disagree and affirm.

General was injured on October 29, 1963, and an agreement was entered into providing…