Legal Opinion
Brommage's Case
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 25, 2009No. 09-P-381PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtKantrowitz, J.
Today we hold, similar to our holding in Dal-bec’s Case, 69 Mass. App. Ct. 306, 313-316 (2007), that an administrative judge in the Department of Industrial Accidents (department) need not adopt the conclusions of an impartial medical examiner’s (IME’s) report in a workers’ compensation case where the judge finds the factual foundation of the report not credible. As such, we affirm the decision of the department’s reviewing board, which summarily affirmed the decision of the administrative judge.
Facts. On September 7, 2005, the employee, Thomas Brom-mage, injured his lower back while helping…
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