# Farquhar v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 9, 1987 · 515 Pa. 315

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9746370

## Case

- **Full name:** Janet FARQUHAR, Appellant, v. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (CORNING GLASS WORKS), Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 9, 1987
- **Citations:** 515 Pa. 315; 528 A.2d 580; 1987 Pa. LEXIS 750
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Nix
- **Judges:** Larsen, Nix, Hutchinson, Flaherty, Zappala, Papadakos
- **Cited by:** 61 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, claimant entitled to benefits even though she could perform time-of-injury job and was symptom free because continued employment would place her at risk of serious injury from blood clot caused by original work injury
- noting that a medical witness’s entire testimony must be reviewed and taken as a whole and a final decision should not rest upon words taken out of context of the entire testimony

## Opinion text

NIX, Chief Justice,
concurring.
My reading of this record satisfies me that the medical testimony establishes that Ms. Farquhar did not, prior to her employment as a screen-maker, possess a physiologic propensity that caused the thrombosis, but rather the condition resulted from her activities while engaged in that *334 employment. I therefore agree that she is entitled to benefits because her present susceptibility to blood clots results from her former employment and the employer made no attempt to establish the availability of other suitable work accessible to appellant.
I also agree that section 440 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 77 P.S. § 996 (Supp.1986), is here applicable; and I therefore join in the mandate of the Court.

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