Cipcic v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

COLINS, President Judge.

Milan Cipcic (Claimant) petitions for review of the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board)1 reversing a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) to award Claimant workers’ compensation benefits. We affirm.

Claimant filed a claim petition on March 4, 1993 alleging an occupational disease (coal workers’ pneumoconiosis). Four years earlier, on January 3, 1989, Claimant had retired after forty years of employment as a coal miner. Claimant’s last employer, for a period of twenty-five years, was Consolidation Coal Company (Employer). Following his…