Genua v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

-WSEE Television and the Insurance Company of North America (petitioners) appeal here an order of *135the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) ■affirming a referee’s grant of benefits to Marc Jennings Genua (claimant). The claimant has cross-appealed from that part of the Board’s order which disallowed reimbursement for certain medical bills which the referee had awarded.

The relevant facts, as found by the referee, are as follows. The claimant was a television news reporter. On September 24, 1976, he went to the scene of a major fire in downtown Erie and after five…