Feinberg v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The claimant in this unemployment compensation case has appealed from an order of the Board of Review affirming a referee’s decision that the claimant was ineligible for unemployment compensation because he had voluntarily left his work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P.S. §802(b)(1).

The claimant was employed in engineering work by the City of Philadelphia. He suffers from manic depressive illness, the acute phase of which is called manic depressive psychosis. In March, 1980 he suffered an…