Weinberg v. State Workmen's Insurance Fund

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This is a suit on a workmen’s compensation policy of the State Workmen’s Insurance Fund. In our opinion the learned court below misconceived the nature and extent of the obligation assumed by the Fund under that policy, and, as a result, erroneously sustained preliminary objections to plaintiffs’ complaint and entered judgment for defendant.

The State Workmen’s Insurance Fund was created by the Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 762. By section 3 of that Act it was provided that certain sums to be paid by employers should constitute a Fund for the purpose of insuring…