GAMCO, INCORPORATED v. Shea

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act, in which an employer gave notice of its intention to suspend compensation payments to its injured employee on the ground that she is able to return to work. General laws 1956, §28-35-46. The employee disputed the employer’s claim and the case was heard by a trial commissioner who thereafter entered a decree suspending compensation on the ground that the employee “refuses to accept treatment reasonably required to lessen or terminate her incapacity.” On her appeal therefrom the full commission entered its decree affirming the trial…