Community Medical Center v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Community Medical Center (CMC) has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s dismissal of CMC’s Petition for Modification of compensation benefits being paid to Bernadette Krupski. We affirm.

Ms. Krupski was injured while working for CMC as a practical nurse. For two years thereafter, CMC’s insurance carrier paid compensation to Krupski for total disability. In May 1977, CMC’s insurance carrier filed a Petition for Modification seeking to terminate compensation payments on the ground that Ms. Krupski ’s disability had…