Albert Zabbo & Sons, Inc. v. Zabbo

In this workers’ compensation proceeding the employee, a plasterer by occupation, sustained a compensable injury when he slipped from a staging and fractured his left wrist. He and his employer entered into a preliminary agreement providing for compensation benefits based on total incapacity. Not long thereafter, the employer filed a petition to review the preliminary agreement alleging alternatively that the employee’s incapacity had ended or that he was able to return to light work. A trial commissioner agreed that the employee was no longer totally incapacitated, and he ordered that…