Shrewsbury Retirement Board v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

The Shrewsbury Retirement Board (local board) seeks review of a decision of the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (appeal board) ordering the local board to pay accidental disability retirement benefits under G. L. c. 32, § 7, to John F. Zecco. He applied for such benefits, claiming that he had suffered a back injury on January 16, 1970, when he fell from the rear of a truck on which he had been working for the Shrewsbury highway department. A medical panel was convened pursuant to G. L. c. 32, § 6 (3); it certified to the local board that Zecco was physically incapacitated from performing…