Oakes's Case

We granted the application of the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund (Fund) for further appellate review in this case. The Appeals Court affirmed the decision of a single justice who had affirmed a decision of the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents (board) holding that, where claims are filed by workers’ compensation insurers for reimbursement pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 37, and the worker sustained an injury while the 1985 version of the statute was in effect, no statute of limitations applies to the claim. Oakes’s Case, 67 Mass. App. Ct. 81, 82 (2006).

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