Legal Opinion
Namay v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 8, 1985PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The plaintiff’s husband, Dr. N. Richard Namay, served as a physician for the city of Lowell, the county of Middlesex, and the Commonwealth. In 1971, while on duty at the Billerica house of correction, Dr. Namay was beaten by an inmate, and he subsequently suffered a disabling heart attack. Finding that the beating caused the heart attack, the Lowell, Middlesex, and State retirement boards granted him accidental disability retirement benefits under G. L. c. 32, § 7.
Dr. Namay died in 1974 as a result of a malignant brain tumor, and his widow applied to the Lowell, Middlesex, and State…
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