S.K.F. Industries & Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

Petitioner-employer (employer) and its insurance carrier have appealed an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which vacated a referee’s findings of fact, conclusions of law, and order denying benefits to respondent-claimant (claimant) and remanded the matter to the referee “for further hearings, if necessary, and resolution of the various items presented” in the Board’s opinion. We must quash the appeal as interlocutory.

Claimant worked for the employer since 1942, and for most of those years (including the last 12 years of his employment),…