Fallon v. Skin Medicine & Surgery Centers of Rhode Island, Inc.

OPINION

This matter comes before this Court on a petition for certiorari in which we are asked to review a majority decree of the Appellate Division of the Workers’ Compensation Court affirming an award of counsel fees made by a trial judge in that Court following an award on an employee’s original petition for workers’ compensation benefits.

The petitioner is the attorney for the employee. He claims that the trial judge abused her discretion in fixing the amount of the counsel fee awarded and that the Appellate Division erred in affirming the award.

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This matter initially came before…