Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which affirmed the referee’s award of workmen’s compensation benefits to David K. Newman.

Newman was awarded benefits beginning December 27, 1974 for permanent and total disability caused by coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. The referee’s determination that Newman became totally disabled as of that date was based upon the report of Dr. C. Charles Pannuzzi, a physician who had examined Newman on December 27, 1974. This report was placed into evidence by the claimant at a…