Claim of La Rose v. Hof

Appeal is taken by an employer.and its insurance carrier from so much of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board as directed the carrier to pay for the replacement of claimant’s dentures, which were damaged beyond repair when claimant, a charwoman, fell from a chair upon which she was standing while washing a window, and struck her chin and lip against the sill, sustaining a laceration of the lower lip, which required four or five sutures, and contusions and abrasions of the chin, forehead and knees. In affirming the Referee’s award the majority of the board panel found “ that since…