Palm v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Tressie Y. Palm has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming the action of a referee denying her claim for workmen’s compensation benefits. The issue is that of whether disability benefits received by the claimant from insurance provided at her employer’s expense had the effect of tolling the limitation of Section 315 of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 721, as amended, 77 P.S. §602. Section 315 of the Act provides:

In cases of personal injury all claims for compensation shall be forever barred,…