Perkins School for the Blind v. Rate Setting Commission

These cases, which come to us by report of a judge of the Superior Court, present the single question whether the Commonwealth is liable to the Perkins School for interest on the difference between the amounts the Commonwealth originally paid the school for the education and care of special needs students and the higher amounts which were later determined to have been payable for those services under the statutory standard of “adequate, fair and reasonable” compensation. G. L. c. 6A, § 36, as inserted by St. 1973, c. 1229, § 2. The Division of Hearings Officers and the Rate Setting Commission…