Baus v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

CRAIG, President Judge.

Claimant William Baus appeals a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board that affirmed two decisions of a referee. One of the referee’s decisions concerned the subrogation rights of the Nelson Company, the claimant’s employer, to an apportionment of a third-party settlement the claimant obtained; the other decision dismissed the claimant’s petition to impose penalties on the employer.

In addition to the matter of penalties, this appeal involves the computation of the employer’s subrogation rights in the third-party settlement.

In 1977 the employer began to pay…