Tavares v. A.C. & S. Inc.

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an employee’s original petition for compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Act alleging that the employee was disabled as a result of pulmonary asbestosis. The trial commissioner denied and dismissed the petition. The full Workers’ Compensation Commission (the commission) reversed the decree of the trial commissioner and granted the employee’s petition. This case is before us on appeal by the employer from the decree of the commission granting the employee’s petition.

The pertinent facts are not in dispute. The testimony reveals that the employee…