Panyko v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Justice NIGRO.

Appellant Russell T. Panyko (“Claimant”) appeals from the Commonwealth Court’s order which affirmed the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (the “Board”) denying Claimant’s claim petition. We now reverse.

On November 17, 1997, Claimant filed a claim petition seeking various benefits for a heart attack he suffered on February 5, 1997, during a meeting with one of his supervisors.1 Claimant’s employer, U.S. Airways, filed an answer to the petition, in which it denied that Claimant’s heart attack was “work-related.”

*313During a hearing before a workers’…