Legal Opinion
Meunier's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 9, 1946PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This appeal by the insurer from a decree awarding compensation for disability arising from an injury to the lungs of an employee is based on the ground that the statute, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 9B, inserted by St. 1935, c. 424, as revised by St. 1938, c. 462, governing the admissibility and probative effect to be given to the reports of medical referees in workmen’s -compensation' cases, is invalid.
Section 9B, in so far as material, provides for the appointment of a board of medical referees consisting of three impartial physicians where an' employee is claiming compensation on account of…
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