Laundry Owners Mutual Liability Insurance v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION

MONTEMURO, Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether the Workmen’s Compensation Act1 (the Act) entitles an insurer to interest on compensation payments reimbursed from the Supersedeas Fund (the Fund). We now hold it does not.

The facts giving rise to this case are as follows: On June 1, 1982, Barbara Herpak filed a claim petition alleging that she had been disabled in an auto accident on December 3,1981 when she worked for Stop-N-Go Food Stores. On April 6, 1984, a referee granted this petition and ordered Stop-N-Go and its insurer, Laundry Owners Mutual Liability Insurance…