DiCamillo v. City of Philadelphia & Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

This is an appeal by Janice DiCamillo, a workmen’s compensation claimant, from an order of the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation (Appeal) Board reversing a referee’s award of benefits.

Since the Board’s decision was rendered prior to the May 1,1972 effective date of the amendments to Section 423 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act by the Act of February 8, 1972, P. L. , No. 12, and the Act of March 29, 1972, P. L. , No. 61, 77 P.S. §854 (Supp. 1974-1975), the Board could, as it did here, disregard the referee’s findings of…