Legal Opinion
Opare's Case
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 31, 2010No. 09-P-1088PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
A lump sum settlement, formally “approved” by an administrative judge of the Department of Industrial Accidents (department) pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 48, is at issue in this appeal. Despite the objections of the injured employee, who made it known he no longer wished to enter into the proposed lump sum settlement with the insurer, the administrative judge ordered him to do so. This was error, as was an order of a judge of the Superior Court dismissing the employee’s complaint on *540jurisdictional grounds, Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1), 365 Mass. 754 (1974).
Background.1 On May 3, 2006, Michael Opare…
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