General Electric Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

BLATT, Senior Judge.

This is an appeal by the General Electric Company (employer) from a decision and order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s decision granting total disability benefits to Edmund Valsamaki (claimant) pursuant to Section 301(c) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act).1

The record reveals that the claimant worked for the employer as a field representative from 1958 to 1984 when he was forced to leave his employment due to persistent pain in his back and right knee. In 1964, while working for the employer at a United States…