Salvas v. Pawtucket School Department

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Pawtucket School Department (employer) from a decree of the Worker’s Compensation Commission (commission) awarding compensation for total disability to its employee Rene Salvas. The employer claims that the commission improperly denied its motion to dismiss the employee’s petition to review an earlier decree denying compensation. It asserts also that the commission erroneously awarded compensation because the employee failed to sustain his burden of proving the claimed disability.

The facts are not in dispute. In 1971, Salvas suffered a totally…