Bell Telephone Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

CRAIG, Judge.

This worker compensation appeal by Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, the employer, poses a straightforward question concerning the proper apportionment of a $15,000 recovery from a third party, and the legal expenses required to obtain it, where the claimant, Michael Artuch, effected a settlement of his suit against an alleged third-party tortfeasor claimed to have liability for his injury.

Applying the plain terms of section 319 of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 671, 1 this court decides that the employer is…