Opinion
June 13, 1961.
September 12, 1961.
Workmen's Compensation — Medical and surgical services — Period of six months after disability of employe — Workmen's Compensation Act.
Under § 306(f) of the Workmen's Compensation Act, as amended, an employe injured in the course of his employment is entitled to reasonable surgical and medical services during the first six months after he has become disabled, even though such services are required more than six months after the date of the accident when the injury occurred.
Before ERVIN, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., and WRIGHT, J., absent).
Appeal, No. 25, Oct. T., 1961, from order of Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, June T., 1960, No. 1367, in case of Howard O. Davis v. Jay Mourar et al. Order affirmed; reargument refused October 6, 1961.
Same case in court below: 24 Pa. D. C. 2d 689.
Appeal by carrier from award by Workmen's Compensation Board.
Order entered dismissing appeal and directing judgment for claimant, opinion by TOAL, J. Carrier appealed.
Gerald J. Haas, Associate Counsel, State Workmen's Insurance Fund, with him E.S. Lawhorne, Associate Counsel, R.D. Holahan, Counsel, State Workmen's Insurance Fund, Marshall Seidman, Deputy Attorney General, and Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for State Workmen's Insurance Fund, appellant.
Kenneth Syken, with him Mazer and Syken, for appellee.
Argued June 13, 1961.
The order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County is affirmed on the opinion of Judge WM. R. TOAL for the court below, reported at 24 Pa. D. C. 2d 689.