Maggiacomo v. Rhode Island Public Transit Authority

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an employee’s original petition to review a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission. It is before us on the employee’s appeal from a decree of the commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner denying the employee’s original petition for compensation.

The facts are not in dispute. The employee was employed by employer as a bus driver for approximately five years. The employee testified that on March 13, 1982, while operating a bus on Armistice Boulevard in Pawtucket, he experienced a deep cough that caused him to suffer severe pain in…