Wardwell Braiding MacHine Co. v. Imondi

This is an employer’s petition to review a preliminary agreement which provided for the payment of compensation for total incapacity. The petition alleges that the employee’s incapacity for work has ended and that he is able to return to light selected work. A decree of the trial commissioner modified the prior preliminary agreement between the parties and directed the employer to pay weekly compensation benefits for partial, rather than total, incapacity. The case is here on the employee’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming the trial commissioner’s decree.

The employee…