Claim of Walsh v. Sucrest Corp.

This is an appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant’s attorney appeals from a determination of the board which denied a request for an increased attorney’s fee and reduced the fee set by the Referee.

Claimant, while attending a convention in Toronto, Canada, on behalf of his employer, fell in the bathroom of his motel and sustained a fractured skull. The sole witness to the incident testified that claimant, a sufferer from an asthmatic condition, entered the bathroom during a coughing spell and collapsed, The board, in an amended…