Stanek v. Worker's Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

SAYLOR, Justice.

In this appeal, the Court is asked to assess a workers’ compensation claimant’s burden in seeking total disability benefits, having previously exhausted entitlement to compensation for partial disability.

After working for forty-three years in the coal mining industry for Appellee Greenwich Collieries (“Employer”), Appellant Francis B. Stanek (“Claimant”) ceased work, sought compensation for disability resulting from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and was awarded partial disability benefits on such basis, effective November 10, 1981. Thereafter, he received $257.38 per…