Forni's Case

1. The reviewing board, reversing the decision of the single member, dismissed the employee’s claim against the city of Springfield for workmen’s compensation benefits. The Superior Court affirmed the reviewing board’s decision. The claim was based on a theory that the employee, who was employed provisionally as a senior accountant in the Springfield park department, had developed a permanent condition of severe anxiety which, in turn, contributed to a disabling costochondritis, all as a result of the employee’s involvement in, and futile attempts to police, a series of alleged fiscal…