Walker v. Chestnut Hill Hospital

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation appeal in which an award of benefits was made to the claimant, Bertha W. Walker, who was found by the referee and the Board to be totally disabled as the result of exposure to the occupational disease of tuberculosis while employed as a nurse by the Chestnut Hill Hospital, the defendant-appellant.

The said defendant-appellant and the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Company, the hospital’s insurance carrier, also a defendant-appellant, appealed from the decision of the Board contending that the order of the Board against…