Bulova Watch Company v. Cortes

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the employee, Oscar Cortes (Cortes), from a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission granting the employer’s petition to review a preliminary agreement. We affirm.

On September 22, 1981, the employee, in the course of his employment with Bulova Watch Company (Bulova), sustained a right inguinal hernia. Thereafter, the parties entered into a preliminary agreement in which Bulova consented to pay compensation benefits for total incapacity to the employee.

On April 5, 1982, the employer filed with the Workers’ Compensation Commission a petition to…