Abel Verdon Construction v. Rivera

OPINION OF THE COURT

The Workers’ Compensation Board affirmed findings that supported the claimant’s partial disability award against his employer, Abel Verdón Construction, but remanded the claim with directions for the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) to admit the testimony from the claimant’s safety expert and to determine whether Verdon’s intentional violation of a workplace safety regulation in any degree caused the claimant’s accident.1 A divided Court of Appeals reinstated the ALJ’s refusal to admit the safety expert’s testimony but affirmed otherwise. The court also rejected Ver-don’s…