Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. General Machine Products Co.

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

This is an appeal by Attorney Charles F. Quinn (appellant) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board). The Board’s order modified a referee’s determination by limiting the amount that appellant could recover from his client, Dorothy Gilroy (claimant), for services he performed pursuant to a *97contingent fee agreement concerning her workmen’s compensation claim.

The undisputed facts reveal that in 1973 claimant retained appellant to file a fatal claim petition on behalf of herself and her five children, based upon the alleged compensable death of her…