H. B. Sproul Construction Co. v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion

The employer1 appeals here from an order of the Board2 reversing the decision of the referee which had suspended compensation payments to the claimant.3 The suspension was ordered by the referee because of the claimant’s failure to submit to a medical examination at the employer’s request in the course of the claimant’s petition for modification of an earlier order.

In 1972, the claimant was awarded workmen’s compensation benefits on the basis of total disability as the result of an injury sustained in the course of his employment.4 On April 9, 1973, after a hearing on the petition of…