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· 7/20/1988

City of New Castle v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Citations

  • 546 A.2d 132
  • 118 Pa. Commw. 51
  • 1988 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 567

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  • burden of proving that a claimant’s act was a violation of a positive order or instruction of the employer, thus taking the claimant out of the course of employment, is on the employer
  • wherein the claimant was deemed in the course of employment and entitled to compensation for his death from a rare, non-occupational disease he contracted when he kissed a co-worker who was leaving for maternity leave

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Judges: MacPhail, Colins, Kalish

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