Bagge's Case

In this case the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (insurer) seeks reversal of a judgment1 in the Superior Court awarding the claimant parents of Neil G. Bagge (deceased) the lump sum of $57,375.2 The lump sum was awarded to the deceased s parents as the uncollected balance remaining from compensation to which the deceased had become entitled under § 36 of c. 152 of the General Laws. G. L. c. 152, § 36A.3 After the appeal was entered in the Appeals Court, we transferred the case here for direct review, on our own initiative.

The deceased was fatally injured on August 28, 1970, when the raised…