Teachers' Retirement Board v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

This appeal in a proceeding for review under the State Administrative Procedure Act (G. L. c. 30A, §§ 14, 15) is taken by the Teachers’ Retirement Board (Retirement Board) from a final decree of the Superior Court. That decree affirmed a decision of the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (Appeal Board) which, under G. L. c. 32, § 16 (4), reversed a decision of the Retirement Board and directed it to pay accidental death benefits to Mary C. Nolan, the intervener, under G. L. c. 32, § 9 (1).

Mrs. Nolan’s application to the Retirement Board for accidental death benefits was based on the death…