Donato v. Pantry Pride (Food Fair)

This is an appeal from a decision of the compensation review division of the workers’ compensation commission affirming the finding and award of the commissioner for the fourth district and dismiss ing the appeal of the employer, Pantry Pride (Food Fair) and its insurer, Crum & Forster Insurance Company.

The commissioner found the following facts, which do not appear to be in dispute: The plaintiff, whom the employer had hired at the age of twenty-four, was the manager of the defendant’s Trumbull store, supervising sixty-four employees and four assistant managers. During his eleven-year tenure…