Pellitteri v. Blackmer & Post Pipe Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of the claimant and against the employer and the insurer. The claimant was awarded permanent total disability in the sum of $20 a week for 300 weeks, and thereafter the sum of $7.96 a week for life. The Commission found that the employe or claimant suffered a hernia, and was placed under the care of physicians who operated upon him, but that such operations were without success, and that claimant cannot return to do any work because of the danger of further injury and…