Dufresne's Case

The reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents (board)1 affirmed the decision of an administrative judge who awarded a specific period of weekly benefits for the temporary, total incapacity of the employee, as well as several periods of compensation for his partial incapacity, which was continuing. The board reversed the judge’s order allowing Wausau Insurance Company (Wausau), the employer’s *82workers’ compensation insurer, to offset, under the provisions of G. L. c. 152, § 15, the amount received by the employee in a settlement of a third-party claim (the so-called “Hunter…