Purvis v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

LORD, Senior Judge.

The ease currently before this Court is an appeal of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board decision which affirmed the decision of the Worker’s Compensation referee dismissing Lawrence Purvis’s claim petition.

The question presented involves the referee’s decision to dismiss the claim petition when Purvis did not appear for additional cross-examination after notices for two separate hearings were issued. The referee’s findings of fact set forth the scenario for the dismissal and are not contested by Purvis:

1. Lawrence Purvis, the Claimant, was employed as a carpenter by…