Cranston Print Works Co. v. Picano

This is an employer’s petition to review a preliminary agreement providing compensation for total incapacity. The trial commissioner granted the petition and ordered payment of compensation for partial incapacity but denied the employee’s claim for total compensation under the second proviso in G. L. 1966, §28-33-18. The case is before this court on the employee’s appeal from the decree of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner.

On April 6, 1960 the employee sustained a compensable back injury. On November 25, 1960 the parties entered into a…