O'Leary's Case

This is an appeal by Daniel J. O’Leary, an employee, from a final decree of the Superior Court denying his claim for a doubling of workmen’s compensation benefits under G. L. c. 152, § 28. A single member of the Industrial Accident Board, after hearing, ordered that compensation be paid for periods of the employee’s partial and total incapacity, increased by an amount based on the number of the employee’s dependents, and for disfigurement and loss of function of his lower left extremity. The single member also found that the employee’s injury was suffered “as a result of the serious and…