Source: https://wcc.state.ct.us/crb/1993/1318crb.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 02:55:59+00:00

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The claimant was represented by Peter N. Upton, Esq. and Jeffrey J. Oliviera, Esq., Tarlow, Levy and Droney, P.C., P.O. Box 887, 74 Batterson Park Road, Farmington, CT 06034-0887.
The respondent was represented by Brewster Blackall, Esq. and Robin Wilson, Esq., Assistant Attorneys General, 55 Elm Street, P.O. Box 120, Hartford, CT 06101-0120.
This Petition for Review from the September 25, 1991 Finding and Award of the Commissioner for the Sixth District was heard October 30, 1992 before a Compensation Review Board panel consisting of the Commission Chairman Jesse Frankl and Commissioners Angelo L. dos Santos and Donald H. Doyle, Jr.
The respondent’s claims require little discussion. As to the first claim, it is now settled that “mental disorders, even if not accompanied by physical trauma to the body, constitute an injury under the act.” Crochiere v. Board of Education, 227 Conn. 333, 363 (1993), aff’d, 10 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 165, 1069 CRB-1-90-7 (1992); see also Henderson v. Brinks, Inc., 5 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 115, 466 CRD-4-86 (1988); Zipoli v. Watertown, 3 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 23, 215 CRD-5-83 (1986).2 As to the second claim, the respondent makes a wholesale attack on the quality of the evidence without reference to specified pages in the transcript or citation to any authority. The respondent has not filed a Motion to Correct and thus the factual findings of the trial commissioner must stand. Vanzant v. Hall, 219 Conn. 674, 677-81 (1991); McCarthy v. 10 Star Corporation,10 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 64, 1134 CRD- 2-90-11 (1992). Furthermore, determinations of credibility and of any adverse inference to be drawn from a claimant’s failure to testify are for the trial commissioner, not this Board, to make. See Fair v. People’s Savings Bank, 207 Conn. 535, 538-42 (1988); Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co., 147 Conn. 672, 674-77 (1960); see also Moccia v. Ecker, 7 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 10, 12, 620 CRD-7-87 (1989). Finally, the respondent’s general references to hearsay testimony relied on by the commissioner is unavailing. See Brown v. Blauvelt, 152 Conn. 272, 274 (1964).

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