Branco v. L & M Concrete Forms, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation dispute in which we are reminded of the importance in workers’ compensation disputes of the question of whether the employee’s injury can be classified as a recurrence of a prior injury or an aggravation of that injury. Here the employer contends that the employee’s petition for compensation benefits should have been denied because the employee’s injury had been classified as an aggravation rather than a recurrence. At the trial level in the Workers’ Compensation Commission, a commissioner ruled otherwise; and subsequently the appellate…