Yates v. Dr. J. H. Ladd School

In this Workmen’s Compensation case the employee asks that a preliminary agreement with her employer, under which she is receiving weekly compensation benefits, be amended by adding dependency benefits for her three minor children. A trial commissioner denied relief, the full commission afffirmed and the employee appealed.

The facts are not in dispute. On May 22, 1971 the employee sustained a job-related incapacitating injury. Thereafter, on June 14, 1971, she entered into a preliminary agreement with her employer providing for the payment of disability benefits for total incapacity commencing…