Legal Opinion
Rison v. Air Filter Systems, Inc.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided February 2, 1998No. 95-510-M.PPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
This is a worker’s compensation case in which we confront the following issue: How does an employee’s settlement of a third-party tort claim arising out of his work-related injuries affect the employee’s ability to obtain a workers’ compensation award for his disfigurement and bodily loss of use?
This question comes before us on a petition for certiorari seeking review of a decision by a panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court’s (WCC) Appellate Division (the panel) construing G.L.1956 § 28-35-58 of the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA). 1 To conduct this…
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