Kepple Coach Lines v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Employer Kepple Coach Lines and its insurer, American States Insurance Oompany, have appealed an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board Which affirmed a referee’s decision granting benefits to claimant Carrie Lockwood. The employer alleges that the claimant failed to establish, by substantial evidence, that her disabling injury was work-related, as is required.1

The claimant testified that, while on the job as a school bus driver on February 16, 1977, she slipped and fell inside the school bus, striking her head. The claimant’s two treating physicians, based on…