Pruteanu v. Electro Core, Inc.

REINHARD, Judge.

Employer appeals from a final award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission), affirming an award of workers’ compensation benefits to claimant. We affirm.

Claimant is a refugee from Rumania who arrived in America on April 20, 1988. He cannot speak English and thus testified through an interpreter at the administrative hearing.

The evidence at the hearing consisted of the testimony of claimant; Ester Salenuic, his sister-in-law; and Bondor Dragos, a Rumanian co-worker who spoke some English. Claimant’s exhibits included medical records from St. John’s…