Scheffler's Case

In this case we are called on to interpret G. L. c. 152, § 11 A, as appearing in St. 1991, c. 398, § 30, which, in a workers’ compensation case “involving a dispute over medical issues,” requires examination of the employee by an “impartial medical examiner,” who is to report on specified issues, and whose report is to “constitute prima facie evidence of the matters contained therein.” The reviewing board (board) upheld the decision of an administrative judge of the Department of Industrial Accidents who concluded that the independent medical examiner’s report had prima *252facie effect only as…