Legal Opinion
Benoit v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 16, 2017No. SJC 12204PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
On September 5, 2011, after working almost twenty years as an emergency medical technician and paramedic for the defendant city’s emergency medical services (EMS), the plaintiff suffered an incapacitating ankle injury while transporting a patient. Unable to work, he received workers’ compensation payments for almost one year pursuant to G. L. c. 152, the workers’ compensation act.
Learning that the plaintiff had been indicted on October 31, 2012, on charges relating to misuse of controlled substances intended for EMS patients, the defendant suspended him indefinitely without pay pursuant to G.…
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