Ansaldo v. State Workmen's Insurance Fund

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The insurance carrier in this workmen’s compensation case has appealed from a judgment of the court below entered upon an award by the referee, affirmed by the board, of compensation for total disability from April 15 to August 23, 1937, resulting from a double hernia. An examination of the record disclose the appeal is without the slightest merit. The facts, as found by the compensation authorities upon abundant competent evidence, clearly brought this case within the requirements of the “Hernia Amendment” of April 13, 1927, P. L. 186, to the Workmen’s Compensation…