Toussaint v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

Connolly, Thomas E., J.

This is an appeal under ch. 30A, §14(7) by Robert Toussaint, a Reading School custodian, from the denial without a medical panel examination of his Application for Accidental Disability Retirement under the provisions of ch. 32, §7(1) and 840 CMR 10.09 by the Reading Retirement Board. The denial was affirmed, after hearing, by the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (“DALA”) and the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (“CRAB”).

There are two obvious mistakes made in the decision (11 pages) of Administrative Magistrate Joan Freiman Fink of DALA. They are as follows:…