Opinion ID: 2087795
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Heading: The Memorandum of Agreement and WCC 87-9010

Text: In May 1986 employee injured herself while working as a machine operator at her employer's place of business. On July 7, 1986, employer filed an MOA with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training and duly served employee with a copy. The MOA described employee's injury as a sprain on left shoulder. This description of her injury, employee later alleged, was incomplete in thatit failed to mention the injury to employee's neck (that is, her cervical area) that she also suffered when she hurt her shoulder at work. Nevertheless, employee initially failed to take any steps to amend the MOA while she received workers' compensation benefits in accordance with this MOA until September 6, 1988. On that date employer's 1987 petition for review resulted in a termination of employee's benefits based upon the trial judge's finding that employee's work-related left-shoulder injury no longer was disabling (WCC 87-9010). The Appellate Division affirmed this decree on November 16, 1989. The employee then petitioned for a writ of certiorari, which this Court denied in January, 1990.