Coletta v. State

This is an original petition for workmen’s compensation benefits for total disability compensation, medical benefits, and specific compensation for the loss of an eye. The case was heard before the trial commissioner on an agreed statement of facts. The trial commissioner entered a decree awarding the petitioner the relief sought, but provided in order No. 5 of the decree that the respondent was to be given credit, under G. L. 1956 (1968 Reenactment) §28-31-11, for any payment made to the petitioner by the federal government in the form of pay, subsistence, hospitalization or any other…