Trumpikas v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This is an appeal from an adjudication and order of the Hearing and Appeals Unit of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) denying the claim of petitioner, as a DPW employee, under the Act of December 8, 1959, P.L. 1718, as amended (Act 534), 61 P.S. §951, which provides, inter alia, that any employee of a state mental hospital “who is injured during the course of his employment by an act of any inmate or any person confined in such institution” shall be paid full salary throughout the “disability arising therefrom”, together with medical and hospital expenses.

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