Silva v. Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on a petition for certiorari filed by Clarence Silva (Silva), an employee, to review a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Appellate Commission denying and dismissing his petition for benefits. The trial commissioner granted Silva’s motion to amend his original petition for compensation benefits to include, in the alternative, a petition to review an earlier suspension agreement and awarded him benefits accordingly. The appellate commission reversed, indicating that the motion to amend was barred by the ten-year statute of limitations…