Legal Opinion

Flynn's Case

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided May 28, 1975Published

1Opinion of the CourtKeville, J.

A single member of the Industrial Accident Board awarded the employee specific compensation under G.L. c. 152, § 36 (b), as amended through St. 1966, c. 584, which provided for the payment of such compensation at the rate of $25 a week for 500 weeks “[f]or the reduction to twenty-seventieths of normal vision in both eyes, with *301glasses.” The single member’s decision was adopted and affirmed by the reviewing board and a judge of the Superior Court entered a decree which, in its fourth paragraph, awarded compensation in accordance with the decisions of the single member and the reviewing board.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Goldsmith v. Reliance InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
  2. Gosselin v. GosselinMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1973
  3. O'Brien's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
  4. Pizzano's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954

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