Piccirillo v. Avenir, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

The worker in this Workers’ Compensation dispute faults the Workers’ Compensation Commission for an appellate commission’s affirmance of a trial commissioner’s denial of the worker’s petition for benefits allegedly due him pursuant to the pertinent provisions of Rhode Island’s Compensation Act. Hereafter we shall refer to the worker as Piccirillo and to the corporate employer as Avenir.

The record in this controversy reminds us that prior to the enactment of workers’ compensation legislation by the General Assembly at its January 1912 session, any worker who sought…