Moltzen v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

NARICK, Senior Judge.

Claimant, Judy A. Moltzen, appeals from the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board), affirming Referee Cercone’s decision terminating her benefits on the basis that she had fully recovered from her work-related injury. The referee found the following facts.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury on August 17, 1989, in the course of her employment as a nurse’s aide with Rochester Manor (Employer). Specifically, she injured her right shoulder and lower back when transferring a patient from his bed to a wheel-chair. Claimant was forty-seven (47) years old at…