Lovitt Foods, Inc. v. Veiga

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation proceeding in which the employee appeals from a decree of the appellate division affirming the trial commissioner’s finding that since the employee’s incapacity for work had ended, the employer was authorized to suspend payment of any and all future weekly compensation benefits.

The employee worked for her employer, Lovitt Foods, Inc., as a meat packer. Part of her job entailed “lifting boxes weighing between 30 to 50 pounds containing mostly waste material.” At the time of the filing of the employer’s petition to review, the employee…