Ferraro v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

The plaintiff, a cafeteria worker in the Worcester school department, appealed the denial of her claim for accidental disability retirement benefits through the prescribed channels of the local board, the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (CRAB), and the Superior Court.2 We hold that CRAB erred as matter of law in ruling that the plaintiff had failed to receive majority approval by a regional medical panel where the certificates of only two members were considered by CRAB and those two members disagreed.

*729The injury in question occurred in 1981 when the plaintiff lifted a heavy mixing bowl…