Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Petitioner Jones & Laug'Min Steel Corporation (Employer) appeals to this Court from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a decision of the referee granting workmen’s compensation benefits to Charles Linkovitch (Claimant) as a result of an occupational disease related disability and ordering Employer and the Commonwealth each to pay fifty per cent of those benefits. Employer challenges only the allocation of payments ordered, arguing that it should be responsible for twenty-five per cent of the benefits and the Commonwealth for…