Dadak v. Commerce Insurance

While on duty as a Brockton police officer, the plaintiff Michael Dadak was injured when his cruiser was broadsided by a motor vehicle operated by Leonard Readus. The plaintiff, disabled for twenty-one weeks, received weekly benefits from Brockton in accordance with G. L. c. 41, § 11 IF, which amounted in all to $23,505.82. As noted in the margin, the statute provides non-standard workers’ compensation.1

*303The plaintiff settled his tort claim against Readus for $20,000, the liability limit for bodily injury under Readus’s automobile insurance policy. The carrier for Readus happened to be the…