Winkelmann v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

MeGINLEY, Judge.

Lillian Winkelmann (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that reversed a referee’s decision awarding her workers’ compensation benefits and vacated a referee’s subsequent award *156of penalties based on her employer’s1 failure to pay the underlying compensation award despite the deemed denial of Employer’s supersedeas request. We reverse the Board and reinstate the penalty award issued by the referee.

Claimant was employed by the late Eleanor O’Neill as a geriatric nurse companion in February of 1980 when she sustained a hip…