Bradley's Case

Injured in 1993 while employed as a serviceman for a utility company, Stephen T. Bradley was assigned light duty as an office clerk and received workers’ compensation payments for partial incapacity under G. L. c. 152, § 35, from the employer’s self-insurer, Commonwealth Energy Systems (insurer). From March 31 through September 23, 1996, there was a lockout of union employees, including Bradley, a longtime *360union member.1 After Bradley began receiving unemployment compensation, the insurer, pursuant to the offset provision in G. L. c. 152, § 36B(2), applicable to workers receiving both partial…