Ascough v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

AISO, J.

Petitioner Joyce E. Ascough also known as Joyce E. Federow seeks review and annulment of the opinion and decision after reconsideration of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board (Board) which reduced her permanent disability to A6V2 percent from the 100 percent found by the referee.

Petitioner, then a 27-year old secretary, 1 tipped over backwards in her swivel chair while at work on March 27, 1963, striking the floor forcefully and suffering a cerebral concussion, sprains to her spine in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar areas, together with subsequent headaches, vertigo, 1…