Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Bohn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 16, 1979PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
We are called on to resolve a single question here: Can an operator of a motorcycle, duly registered in this Commonwealth, as a matter of law, recover damages in tort for conscious pain and suffering, when he has neither incurred $500 in medical expenses nor suffered any of the five types of injury specified in G. L. c. 231, § 6D? We hold that he can.
A brief statement of the background of the case follows. The injury in issue was suffered on June 7, 1971; an action of tort for negligence was entered in the Superior Court for Plymouth County on November 1, 1971. On July 23,1976, the court…
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