Mensah v. Brown University, 042720 RIWC, 2016-00451
Case Date | April 27, 2020 |
Court | Rhode Island |
At any time after the date of the approval of any agreement or at any time after the date of the entry of any decree concerning compensation, and if compensation has ceased under the agreement or decree, within ten (10) years after that, any agreement, award, order, finding, or decree may be from time to time reviewed by the workers' compensation court[.]George K. Mensah, the employee, worked as a carpenter for Brown University, the employer, in 2000. On March 3, 2000, the employee was injured at work when he was using a 40-foot-high scissor lift to remove three (3) javelins that were stuck between the roof and the rafters of the employer's gymnasium, and the lift collapsed on him. Thereafter, pursuant to a memorandum of agreement dated March 14, 2000, the employee received weekly compensation benefits beginning March 4, 2000 for bilateral ankle fractures and multiple contusions until a pretrial order entered in W.C.C. No. 2003-02028 discontinued his benefits as of July 1, 2003. That order was affirmed by a decree entered on September 14, 2005. On January 25, 2016, the employee filed a petition to review, W.C.C. No. 2016-00451, alleging that his total incapacity for work has increased or returned as of May 3, 2013 and continuing due to the effects of his March 3, 2000 work-related injury. On October 4, 2016, the employee filed a second petition...
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