Lambert v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

Ray Lambert Sr. (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed a referees award of occupational disease benefits to Claimant for partial disability from coal workers pneumoconiosis. We reverse.

On August 20, 1982, Claimant, a retired coal miner, filed a petition seeking occupational disease benefits for total or partial disability from coal workers pneumoconiosis under Section 108(q) of The Pennsylvania Workmens Compensation Act (Act). Notice of his in tention to file a claim was given to his last employer,…