LaFlam's Case

This is an appeal by an employee from a final decree denying her claim for workmen’s compensation. The single member found that the employee is permanently and totally disabled and the reviewing board adopted his findings and decision. G. L. c. 152, § 10, as amended through St. 1947, c. 546.

We summarize the relevant facts. On April 26, 1956, while pushing a cart during the course of her employment as an attendant at the Northampton State Hospital, the employee suffered an injury to her back. Since the injury she has been hospitalized three times for corrective surgery. She is unable to…