Legal Opinion
Armstrong's Case
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 10, 1999No. 97-P-1735PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
This is an appeal by Aetna Casualty and Surety Company (Aetna or insurer), from a decision by the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) which held that Aetna, rather than the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund (Trust Fund), was responsible for the payment of compensation benefits to James Armstrong (employee), because Aetna had not properly cancelled its workers’ compensation insurance policy issued to Town and Country Carpentry (employer).1
*694As a result of an industrial accident on July 21, 1989, the employee filed four claims for workers’ compensation benefits. The…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Frost v. David C. Wells Insurance Agency, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1982
- Mobil Oil Corp. v. RoumeliotisMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1995
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