City of Wilkes-Barre v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

The City of Wilkes-Barre appeals from the Commonwealth Court’s order affirming the decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) insofar as the claimant’s petition for benefits was granted and vacating the Board’s decision granting the widow’s claim petition. The court remanded the case for a hearing on the widow’s fatal claim petition. We now reverse.

Stanley Zuczek became employed as a fire fighter for the City of Wilkes-Barre on February 1, 1965. Zuczek estimated that he had fought 6,500 fires throughout the next twenty years. On February 19, 1990, he…