General Motors Corp. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

General Motors Corporation (Employer) petitions for review of the April 9, 2003, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), which affirmed the decision of the workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) to grant Donald P. McHugh, Jr.’s (Claimant) claim petition for permanent disfigurement but modified the decision to increase the award of workers’ compensation benefits from fifteen weeks to fifty-five weeks. We affirm.

On January 21, 2000, Claimant sustained a work-related injury when he was struck in the face by a steel pipe. (WCJ’s Findings of Fact, No. 2; R.R. at…