Martinez v. Bar-Tan Manufacturing

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This workers’ compensation case comes before us on the employee’s petition for certiorari to review a final decree of the appellate commission finding that the employee had failed to prove by a fair preponderance of credible evidence a recurrence of his incapacity for work since the entry of the last unappealed decree that terminated compensation. The facts pertinent to the employee’s petition are as follows.

On December 1, 1982, a trial commissioner entered a decree finding that petitioner, Victor Martinez, had sustained on March 9, 1982, back and leg injuries…