Culp Industrial Insulation v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Culp Industrial Insulation (Culp) has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed, as amended by the Board, a referee’s award of total disability benefits to claimant Henry Linker, Sr., for an occupational disease as defined by The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act).1

*601Appellant Culp does not dispute the finding that the claimant suffered permanent total disability from an occupational disease, asbestosis, contracted in the course of employment. The appellant’s central contention is that the record does not…