Shoup v. Allegheny Lutheran Home

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

The sole question in the appeal of Nellie Gr. Shoup (Claimant) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board granting her employer, The Allegheny Lutheran Home’s, petition to terminate compensation as of January 1, 1975, is whether there existed substantial evidence upon which to base a finding that disability as a result of her February 1, 1974, injury had ceased. Our review of the record reveals that there does exist substantial evidence and we, therefore, affirm.

Clearly, it was the employer’s burden to prove a termination of Claimant’s disability,…