VOLPE v. STILLMAN WHITE CO.

No. 78-279-A.

415 A.2d 1034 (1980)

Gary VOLPE v. STILLMAN WHITE CO.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abedon, Stanzler, Biener, Skolnik & Lipsey, Howard I. Lipsey, Linda J. Kushner, Providence, for petitioner.

Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons, Thomas J. Hogan, Robert W. Lovegreen, Providence, for respondent.


OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The petitioner Gary Volpe appeals from denial of his workers' compensation claim under G.L. 1956 (1968 Reenactment) § 28-33-19(n)(2)* for permanent disfigurement of his left foot. He claims that the Workers' Compensation Commission denied benefits erroneously, because it did not construe the word "leg" as used in the disfigurement-compensation statute to...

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