# 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/9746371

## 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 Hutchinson
- **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

HUTCHINSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result. I also note my general agreement with the rationale by which Mr. Justice Larsen concludes that the authorities below erred in denying benefits. However, I believe footnote 3, slip op. at 15, Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court, is unnecessary to that rationale and I disassociate myself from it for the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Pawlosky v. W.C.A.B., 514 Pa. 450 , 525 A.2d 1204 (1987).

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